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ADVERTISEMENT. 


It  \yill,  doubtless,  be  in  the  recollection  of  many  of 
the  readers  of  ''The  Gentleman  in  Black,"  that  zi  por- 
tion of  the  work  appeared  some  years  ago,  in  a  periodi- 
cal entitled  "The  Literary  Magnet."  That  publi- 
cation, liowever,  having  long  since  been  discontinued, 
the  greater  part  of  this  volume  has  never  yet  appeared 
in  print.  At  the  request  of  the  Subscribers,  Vv'ho  v>'ere 
anxious  that  the  tale  should  be  completed,  it  was  the 
author's  intention  to  have  had  it  immediately  republish- 
ed in  an  entire  form,  but  on  applying  for  the  remainder 
of  the  manuscript,  he  was  informed  that  it  was  mislaid. 
He  has,  therefore,  been  under  the  necessity  of  entirely 
re-writing  it,  and  now,  having  received  his  latest  cor- 
rections, it  is  presented  to  the  public. 


Old  Bond  Street, 

Nov.  25,  1830. 


THE 


iSimtUtnun  in  mnt^. 


CHAPTER  I. 

**What  the  devil  shall  I  do?"  exclaimed  Louis  De- 
songes:  "not  a  sous  have  I  in  the  world  besides  that 
solitary  five  franc  piece!  and  where  the  next  is  to  come 
from  I  cannot  divine.     What  the  devil  must  I  do?" 

"Did  you  call,  Monsieur?"  asked  a  gentle  voice, 
which  seemed  to  proceed  from  the  more  dusky  corner 
of  the  apartment,  in  which  Louis  was  sitting  in  his  old 
arm  chair,  before  a  worm-eaten  table  covered  with 
books  and  papers. 

"Who,  in  the  name  of  fate,  are  you?"  responded  the 
unhappy  youth,  looking  round  in  search  of  the  indivi- 
dual from  whom  the  inquiry  had  proceeded. 

"Precisely  so,  replied  a  stout,  short,  middle-aged 
gentleman,  of  a  somewhat  saturnine  complexion,  as  he 
advanced  from — we  can't  say  exactly  where — into  the 
A  2 


6  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

middle  of  the  room.  He  was  clad  in  black,  according 
to  the  fashion  of  the  day;  had  a  loose  Geneva  cloak, 
as  an  upper  garment,  of  the  same  colour;  and  carried 
a  large  bundle  of  black-edged  papers,  tied  with  black 
tape,  under  his  arm.  Without  the  smallest  ceremony, 
he  placed  a  chair  opposite  our  hero,  bowed,  seated 
himself,  smiled,  laid  his  papers  on  the  table,  rubbed 
his  hands,  and  appeared  altogether  prepared  for  busi- 
ness. Louis  felt  somewhat  embarrassed,  but  returned 
the  stranger's  bow  with  all  due  civility;  and,  after  a 
brief,  awkward  pause,  ventured  to  inquire  the  name 
of  the  gentleman  whom  he  had  the  honour  of  address- 
ing. 

"It  is  of  little  moment,"  replied  his  extraordinary 
visiter:  "you  are  in  difficulties,  and  it  is  in  my  power 
to  assist  you;"  and  so  saying,  he  began,  in  due  form,  to 
untie,  and  "sort  out"  his  papers  upon  the  table.  Poor 
Louis  looked  on  in  silence,  and  sighing,  bethought  him- 
self that  if  he  had  been  as  constant  in  his  attendance 
at  lectures,  and  in  the  courts,  as  at  the  billiard-tables 
and  gaming-houses  of  the  Palais  Royal,  he  might  have 
picked  up  law  enough  to  have  enabled  him  to  involve 
a  case,  in  which  so  many  documents  were  necessary, 
in  a  yet  deeper  state  of  mystification.  "As  it  is," 
thought  he,  "the  man  will  soon  discover  my  ignorance 
—so,  as  I  have  not  yet  practised,  PU  be  honest,  and 
tell  him  the  truth  at  once." 

"You  need  not  trouble  yourself  to  do  that,  Sir,"  said 
the  stranger. 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  7 

"To  do  what,  Sir?"  interrogated  Louis,  "I  did  not 
say  anything." 

"I  know  that,  my  dear  Sir,"  observed  the  gentleman 
in  the  cloak,  still  busying  himself  with  his  papers,  "but 
it  is  just  the  same  thing." 

^^fVhat  is  just  the  same  thing?  I  don't  at  all  compre- 
hend you!"  exclaimed  the  youth. 

"Precisely  so,"  continued  the  stranger,  "there,  they 
are  all  correct,  I  believe — so,  my  dear  Sir,  as  you  were 
saying" 

"Excuse  me.  Sir,"  said  Louis,  "I  was  not  saying  any- 
thing." 

"Pardon  mc,  my  dear  young  friend,"  quoth  the  gen- 
tleman with  the  black-edged  papers,  "you  talked  of 
telling  me  the  truth  at  once." 

"Not  I,  Sir,  I  only  thought  of  doing  so." 

"Oh!  that's  all  the  same  with  «s." 

"Then  yoii're  no  lawyer,  I'm  sure,"  replied  the 
youth, 

"Not  1,  my  friend,  but,  really — I  should  be  sorry  to 
appear  unpolite  to  a  gentleman  of  your  birth  and  ta- 
lents; the  fact,  however,  is,  that  my  engagements  are, 
just  now,  exceedingly  numerous  and  pressing;  there- 
fore, allow  me  just  to  explain.     This  paper" ■ 

"Confound  this  head-ache,"  thought  poor  Louis  to 
himself,  "If  I  had  gone  to  bed  last  night,  instead  of 
watching  over  the  rouge  et  noir  table,  and  losing  my" 


'Pshaw!  pshaw!  smell  this  bottle,"  said  the  stranger, 


8  THEGENTLEMANIN    BLACK. 

t 

politely  handing  a  small,  exquisitely  cut  black  glass 
bottle,  which  he  took  out  of  a  black  ebony  case. 

The  young  gentleman  did  so,  and  felt  "powerfully 
refreshed;"  his  head  instantly  appeared  clearer,  and 
his  whole  frame  exhilirated. 

"Mon  Dieu!"  he' exclaimed,  "Monsieur,  where  did 
you  buy  that  wonderful  specific?" 

"Hist!"  ejaculated  the  stranger,  "Don't  swear,  I  en- 
treat you.     It  is  extremely  disagreeable  to  me." 

"Well,  then,  I  will  not,"  said  Louis;  but — pray  in- 
form me!  Poor  little  Louise!  and  Adele!  and  the 
Comtesse!  They'd  adore  me,  if  I  could  but  procure 
for  them  such  a  specific.  Pray,  Monsieur,  I  conjure 
you,  in  the  name  of" 

"Stop!"  cried  the  other,  starting  from  his  chair,  "not 
a  word  more!  There,  there,  I  make  you  a  present  of 
the  bottle,  case  and  all.  I  manufactured  it  myself  for 
the  use  of  particular  friends  only." 

"Pll  give  you  a  thousand  francs  for  the  recipe,"  ex- 
claimed Louis. 

"Where  will  you  find  the  money?"  asked  the  stran- 
ger, coolly  settling  himself  back  in  his  chair,  like  a  man 
who  has  found  his  'vantage  ground. 

"Where,  indeed!"  groaned  poor  Louis.  Then,  hav- 
ing rested  his  head  awhile  upon  his'.^mpty  palm,  he 
bethought  him  that  something  might  be  made  of  the 
stranger's  papers,  and,  therefore,  addressed  himself  to 
business. 

"I  should  ask  your  pardon,  Sir,"  said  he,  "for  talk- 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLAOK.  9 

ing  of  perfumes;  I  accept  this  bottle  as  a  token  of 
amity  between  us,  and  now  if  you  please" 

"Good!"  observed  the  gentleman  in  black,  "that  is 
what  I  wish.  I  am  a  plain  man" — (somewhat  plain,  I 
must  confess,  thought  Louis) — "well,  that's  nothing.  I 
wish  to  act  handsomely  by  you;  I  have  taken  a  great 
fancy  to  you,  and  you  are  over  head-and-ears  in  debt 
— have  a  hopeless  love  affair — have  neglected  your 
studies — offended  your  uncle — shattered  your  constitu- 
tion"  

"Mon  Dieu!"  exclaimed  the  youth. 

"If  you  say  that  again.  Sir,"  said  the  gentleman  in 
black,  "I  shall  take  my  departure.  I  told  you  before 
that  I  objected  to  swearing." 

"Diable,  then!"  cried  Louis. 

"That's  better,"  quoth  his  companion,  smiling,  and 
taking  a  pinch  of  blackguard,  (which  an  Irish  gentle- 
man, in  a  passion,  had  given  him,)  out  of  a  black  tor- 
toise-shell box,  handed  it  politely  to  our  hero. 

"No,  Sir,"  said  the  latter,  sternly,  "you  and  your 
snuff  may  go  to  h —  together." 

"Precisely  so,"  calmly  observed  the  stranger,  return- 
ing the  box  to  his  pocket,  but  not  offering  to  move 
from  his  chair. 

"This  is  a  little  too  much,"  cried  the  enraged  young 
Frenchman,  starting  upon  his  legs,  "tell  me.  Sir,  what 
you  mean  by  intruding  upon  my  privacy,  and  insulting 
me  with  the  repetition  of  all  my  misfortunes?  Who, 
and  what  the  devil  are  you." 


10  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

"Precisely  so,  as  I  told  you  before,"  replied  the  un- 
ruffled stranger. 

"Precisely  what?  I  don't  understand  you!  You  may 
be  the  devil  himself,  for  aught  I  know." 

"Precisely  so,"  was  the  reply. 

"You  don't  mean  to  say  you  really  are  the" 

"Precisely  so.  We  have  an  objection  to  plain  yes 
and  no." 

"Then  you  are  a  lawyer  after  all." 

"Not  I,  though  I  confess  I  have  practised  occasional- 
ly:— but,  pshaw!  this  is  a  waste  of  time.  I  know  your 
troubles  and  difficulties;  and  v^ould^elp  you  through 
them,  if  you  will  allow  me.  I  have  money  to  any 
amount  at  my  disposal  and  immediate  command,  as 
you  may  satisfy  yourself;"  and  he  threw  a  large  black 
morocco  leather  pocket-book  upon  the  table;  where  it 
instantly  burst  open  from  the  extension  of  (to  poor 
Louis's  eyes)  an  innumerable  quantity  of  billets  de 
banque,  for  500  francs  each.  "And  as  for  gold," — and 
he  began  to  draw  from  his  breeches'  pocket  a  black 
satin  purse,  to  which  Louis  thought  there  would  be 
no  end,  so  singularly  did  it  appear  to  elongate  itself,  as 
the  stranger  continued  to  tug  it  from  its  dark  abode, 
till  it  had  attained  the  full  extent  of  a  Flemish  ell. 
Yet,  in  his  hands,  it  appeared  light  as  the  eider-down, 
till  having  placed  it  carefully  on  the  table,  the  weight 
of  the  gold  within  rent  asunder  its  silken  prison,  and  a 
large  quantity  of  louis  d'ors  rolled  out  upon  the  table. 

Louis  looked  first  at  the  immense  wealth  before  him, 


THEGENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  11 

then  at  his  visiter;  again  at  the  gold  and  notes;  and  so 
on,  alternately,  about  half  a  dozen  times,  ere  he  found 
himself  capable  of  uttering  even  an  exclamation  of 
surpiise.  And  each  time  his  eyes  rested  upon  the  stran- 
ger's countenance,  he  discerned  some  new  charm  of 
feature  and  expression;  and  he  at  length  decided  that 
he  had  never  before  seen  so  perfectly  elegant,  agree- 
able, interesting,  well-bred,  and  accomplished  a  gentle- 
man; and  wondered  how  he  could  for  an  instant  have 
considered  him  a  plain  man. 

"It's  always  the  way,"  observed  the  gentleman  in 
black,  "strangers  think  me  any  thing  but  handsome; 
yet,  as  we  get  more  intimate,  my  society  becomes 
more  and  more  agreeable,  so  that  at  last  my  friends  are 
ever  endeavouring  to  imitate  me  in  all  their  actions 
and  pursuits:  but  you'll  know  more  about  that  bye 
and  bye." 

Poor  Louis  had  by  this  time  made  up  his  mind  that 
his  visiter  was  no  other  than  his  Infernal  Majesty,  and 
would  instantly  have  made  application  to  his  patron 
saint,  and  as  many  more  as  he  could  recollect  the  titles 
of,  without  looking  into  his  calendar,  upon  the  subject, 
had  it  not  been  for  the  dazzling  gold,  which  he  some- 
how instinctively  apprehended  would  vanish  from  his 
sight  at  the  sound  of  their  names.  If  he  had  said  his 
pater  noster  that  morning,  what  now  lay  before  him 
was  not,  most  assuredly,  the  sort  of  temptation  from 
which  he  would  have  dreamed  of  imploring  deliver- 
ance.   The  dark,  middle-aged  gentleman  saw  the  gold 


12  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

"enter  into  his  soul,"  and  let  it  work  its  way  in  silence 
for  a  short  time,  watching  his  victim's  countenance,  and 
ever  and  anon  looking  disconcerted,  as  the  youth's 
guardian  angel  seemed  to  be  whispering  in  his  ear. 

"Well,  Monsieur  le  Baron!"  ejaculated  he  at  length, 
"perhaps  the  trifle  you  see  on  the  table  may  be  of 
some  little  service  to  you?" 

"I  am  no  Baron,''  observed  Louis. 

"So  much  the  worse." 

"I  know  that  well  enough,"  rejoined  Louis^  testily, 
and  heaved  a  sigh  as  he  thought  of  the  fair  Emilie, 
and  her  most  perpendicular  father,  the  Comte  de  Tien 
a  la  Cour. 

"It's  your  own  fault,"  continued  the  gentleman  in 
black,  bustling  up  to  the  table,  and  opening  a  paper; 
"you  have  but  to  sign  this  document,  and  what  you  see 
on  the  table  is  but  a  trifle  when  compared  with  the 
riches  you  may  command;  besides  uninterrupted  health, 
and,  indeed,  whatever  you  wish  for;  since  money  you 
know,  my  dear  friend,  carries  all  before  it." 

"And  pray.  Sir,"  asked  Louis,  influenced,  as  he  after- 
wards declared,  77zere/y  by  curiosity,  but  determined  not 
to  sign  the  paper  upon  any  terms,  "what  may  be  the 
contents  of  that  document?" 

"A  mere  bagatelle;  look  it  over  yourself.  Only  to 
sin  for  a  single  second  this  year,  two  seconds  the  next; 
to  double  it  the  third,  and  so  on  with  each  succeeding 
year.  I  say  the  penalty  amounts,  in  fact,  to  nothing; 
for  the  truth  is,  you  will  sin  for  a  much  longer  period 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  13 

annually  if  you  do  not  sign  it,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
crimes  which  poverty  and  desperation  may  drive  you 
to  commit."  So  saying,  he  threw  the  paper  carelessly 
towards  poor  Louis,  and  betook  himself  to  his  black- 
guard, with  due  gentlemanly  nonchalance. 

The  youth  read — "Sin  for  a  second  in  the  first  year, 
two  seconds  the  second,"  then  looked  at  the  gold.  "Let 
I     me  see,"  said  he,  calculating,  "that  will  be  four  seconds 
the  third  year — eight  seconds  the  fourth — sixteen  se- 
conds the  fifth — thirty-two  seconds  the  sixth,  and" 

"Exactly  so,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  interrupt- 
ing him,  "that  is  about  a  minute  in  the  course  of  the 
whole  six  years.  And,  beside,  you'll  observe  a  clause, 
by  which  all  the  sins  you  have  committed  before,  and 
all  that  you  may  in  future  commit,  ovc?f  and  above  the 
stipulated  agreement,  will  be  taken  into  account.  So 
that  you  see  not  even  a  hermit  need  live  more  imma- 
culately." 

"I  must  confess  you  are  very  liberal,"  observed 
young  Desonges,  doubtingly. 

"You'll  always  find  me  liberal,"  said  the  other,  hand- 
ing a  pen  across  the  table. 

"Stop!  stop!    Let  me  read  the  whole  paper  first." 

"Oh,  by  all  means!  You'll  find  all  correctly  express- 
ed." 

Louis  ascertained  the  manner  in  which  he  was  to 

obtain  daily  supplies  of  money,  so  long  as  the  stipula- 

N  tions  in  the  contract  were  fulfilled; — "awy  amount"  was 

specified — he  had  committed  sins  enough  already,  he 


14  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

well  knew,  to  wipe  off  the  score  for  many  years  to 
come,  to  say  nothing  of  those  which,  in  the  common 
course  of  events,  must  of  necessity  ensue.  The  dream 
of  unUmited  riches,  and  unchecked  and  unbounded 
pleasure,  was  intoxicating;  but  yet  a  something  he 
knew  not  how  to  define,  prompted  him  to  hesitate.  At 
this  critical  juncture  a  noise  arose  in  the  anti-room. 
There  was  a  war  of  words,  amid  which  was  heard  the 
voice  of  a  marchand  tailleiiVf  (from  whose  ^'magasin" 
poor  Louis  had  been  supplied  with  divers  "habits,  redin- 
gottes,  gilets,"  &c.  &c.  for  which  payment  had  been  oft 
and  again  demanded,  and  ever  in  vain,)  loudly  pre- 
eminent. Threat  had  succeeded  threat,  and  matters 
were  now  approaching  to  a  crisis. 

"How  much  does  the  fellow  want?"  asked  the  gentle- 
man in  black. 

"Three  thousand  livres,"  replied  Louis. 

"Pshaw!  an  insignificant  trifle;  call  him  in  and  pay 
him — merely  to  get  rid  of  his  impertinence. — There 
— throw  your  capote  over  the  rest  of  the  money — there 
are  five  thousand." 

"Your  generosity  overpowers  me,"  exclaimed  the 
astonished  Louis,  taking  up  the  pen,  "There,  Sir,  I  have 
signed  the  paper." 

"Good!  (reading)  'Louis  Desonges,'  perfectly  correct; 
and  there,  my  good  friend,  is  the  counterpart,  signed  by 
myself:  it's  a  singular  hand,  perhaps  you  may  not  be 
able  to  decipher  it;  indeed  my  signature  is  frequently, 
1  have  been  told,  taken  for  that  of  some  of  your  great 
men.  But  no  matter;  if  it  answers  their  purpose  I  be- 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  15 

lieve  they  don't  care  much  for  that,  nor  I  either,  to  tell 
you  the  truth.  However  I  must  be  off,  having  a  little 
business  just  now  to  transact  in  London." 

"Stop,  my  dear  Sir,"  exclaimed  Louis,  whose  fancy 
being  now  relieved  from  the  terrors  of  a  jail,  was  once 
more  on  the  gui  vive.  "You  promised  me  the  recipe 
for  that  perfume.  We  must  not  forget  the  ladies. 
There's  poor  Adele  suffers  sadly  from  the  head-ache; 

— and  the  lovely  Comtesse — and" 

"Ah — I  know  what  you  would  say,"  replied  the  gen- 
tleman in  black,  interrupting  him,  and  taking  a  black- 
edged  paper  from  the  bundle,  which  he  had  again  tied 
up  with  black  tape;  "they  are  almost  all  fond  of  such 
things. — There — you  will  find  what  they  will  think 
inestimable  recipes  for  perfumes,  patches,  rouge,  dis- 
tilled waters,  and  all  that  sort  of  thing.  I  am  the  ori- 
ginal inventor  of  them  all." 

"The  devil  you  are!"  exclaimed  Louis. 
'^Precisely  so.  And  let  me  tell  you  I  have  derived 
no  little  advantage  therefrom.  Not  that  I  began  to 
introduce  them  with  that  intent;  for,  to  say  the  truth, 
I  had  not  then  become  so  well  acquainted  with  the  fol- 
lies and  infatuation  of  mankind:  but,  the  fact  is,  I  hate 
to  see  a  lovely  woman  in  her  own  undisguised  charms 
and  beauty.  She  always  reminds  me  of  angels  whose 
existence  I  am  anxious  to  forget.  Some  among  you, 
who  have  not  yet  adopted  the  use  of  my  nostrums,  still 
preserve  the  form  of  beings  whom  I  once  saw  in  the 
presence  of  one  whom  I  dare  not  name.*' 


16  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

This  allusion  recalled  poor  Louis  to  his  senses.  He 
shuddered  at  the  bare  recollection  of  what  he  had 
done;  and,  clasping  his  hands  together,  lifted  up  his 
eyes  toward  heaven,  and  fervently  ejaculated,  "OhI 
Mon  Dieu!" 

When  he  turned  to  look  for  his  sable  companion,  he 
was  gone.  If  he  had  been  allowed  time  for  reflection, 
his  thoughts  would  have  been  most  painful;  but  a  vio- 
lent knocking  at  the  door  helped  to  awaken  him  from 
his  dream.  The  door  burst  open,  and  in  stalked  the 
identical  tailor,  whose  entree  had  been  announced  with 
so  much  clamour.  Louis  had,  almost  unconsciously, 
pocketed  the  five  thousand  livres,  and  his  capote  con- 
cealing the  rest  of  his  riches,  the  scene  appeared,  to 
the  tailor's  eye,  as  denuded  and  poverty-stricken  as 
usual.  A  young  Frenchman  (particularly  if  in  Paris) 
flies  from  grave  to  gay,  with  more  volatility  than  any 
other  mortal;  and  Louis,  having  no  fear  of  the  law  now 
before  his  eyes,  threw  himself  back  in  his  chair,  and, 
with  an  air  of  gay  defiance,  demanded  the  intruder's 
business. 

"Look  ye,  Monsieur,"  replied  the  man  of  "shreds 
and  patches,"  "my  mind  is  made  up;  I  have  two  offi- 
cers in  the  next  room.  I  know  where  you  were  last 
night,  throwing  away  my  money  at  rouge  et  noir, 
among  a  parcel  of  demisoldes  and  pauvre  diables.'* 

"Never  mind.  Snip,"  said  Louis,  laughing;  "good 
luck  must  come  at  last,  if  we  do  but  persevere." 

"What!  andyoujdare  to  insult  me,  too!"  ejaculated 


THEGENTLEMANIN    BLACK.  17 

the  enraged  tailor.     "Come  in,  my  friends,  and  do  your 
duty.     There  is  your  prisoner." 

The  officers  advanced,  like  automata,  mechanically 
bowing  to  our  hero,  ere  they  made  him  captive.  The 
tailor  at  this  moment  took  hold  of  the  capote,  and  was 
in  the  act  of  lifting  it  up,  and  exclaiming  how  much  it 
had  cost  him,  when  his  attention  was  arrested  by  the 
sight  of  a  small  portion  only  of  Louis's  wealth;  but  suf- 
ficient to  change  entirely  the  character  of  his  counte- 
nance and  tone.  He  let  the  capote  drop,  and  fell  back 
against  the  wall,  with  looks  of  almost  reverential  awe 
and  dismay,  stammering  a  thousand  apologies. 

"If  you've  made  out  your  bill.  Sir,"  said  Louis,  in  a 
most  dignified  style,  "write  a  receipt."  Then  throw- 
ing a  louis  to  each  of  the  officers,  he  continued, — 
"Pray,  gentlemen,  accept  that  trifle  for  the  trouble 
this  fool  of  a  bourgeois  has  occasioned  you.  I  wished 
only  to  make  him  wait  a  little  while  for  his  money,  as 
a  punishment  for  his  impertinence,  and  the  infamous 
manner  in  which  he  has  frequently  made  my  clothes, 
and  kept  me  waiting  till  the  last  moment,  when  I  was 
going  to  a  party."  They  bowed— looked  at  each 
other — bowed  again; — and,  bowing,  retreated  back- 
ward, as  though  from  the  presence  of  Majesty,  till  the 
door  was  safely  gained.  The  tailor  advanced,  in  the 
same  lowly  attitude;  wrote  the  "acquit,"  as  well  as  he 
was  able;  made  another  humble  apology;  received  his 
money,  and  bowed  himself  backward,  after  his  quon- 
dam associates. 
B  2 


18  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

Left  to  himself,  Louis  hummed  a  tune  from  the  last 
new  opera;  reflected  that  what  was  done  could  not  be 
undone;  and  concluded  it  was,  therefore,  not  worth 
while  to  reflect  at  all.  To  keep  all  clear  for  next 
year,  he  resolved  to  go  and  commit  his  moment  of  sin 
immediately.  Where  he  went,  or  what  he  did,  has 
not  been  recorded,  but  it  is  most  certain  that  there 
was  no  complaint  of  his  not  having  duly  fulfilled  his 
contract  for  many  years  afterward. 

About  the  same  time  that  this  adventure  occurred 
to  Louis  Desonges,  at  Paris,  there  was  a  young  gentle- 
man in  the  city  of  London,  whose  father,  dying,  left 
behind  him  a  considerable  sum  of  ready  money,  beside 
a  flourishing  West  India  trade,  by  strict  attention  to 
which  his  fortune  had  been  amassed.  Charles  Max- 
well was  just  of  age.  He  had  received  a  good  educa- 
tion, in  the  first  place,  from  his  father,  and  afterwards 
a  very  handsome  allowance,  by  which  he  was  enabled 
to  keep  what  is  called  good  society,  whilst  the  old  gen- 
tleman stuck  close  to  the  counting-house  and  the  Ex- 
change, and  kept  "all  right." 

But  when  he  died,  his  son,  taking  a  wider  range, 
neglected  the  business,  and  left  the  whole  of  his  mer- 
cantile affairs  to  his  clerks;  and  the  consequence  was, 
that  in  less  than  two  years  he  was  on  the  eve  of  figur- 
ing in  the  Gazette. 

At  this  critical  juncture,  too,  he  had  fallen  in  love;  a 

contingency  which,  if  it  had  occurred  somewhat  earlier, 

III        might  possibly  have  made  him  more  careful  of  his  own 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  -        19 

concerns,  and  saved  him  from  the  temptation  which 
awaited  him.  In  sad  and  sober  mood,  he  sat  occupied 
in  a  manner  to  which  he  had  been  but  httle  accus- 
tomed, namely,  in  melancholy  contemplation,  in  his 
own  private  counting-house,  when  the  gentleman  of 
whom  we  have  already  spoken,  suddenly  made  his  ap- 
pearance, with  his  black  coat,  waistcoat,  inexpressi- 
bles, and  stockings,  black  cloak,  black  bag,  black- 
edged  papers,  tied  with  black  tape,  black  smelling- 
bottle,  snuff-box  and  blackguard,  in  the  same  style  as 
when  he  visited  the  poor  law  student  at  Paris,  not 
forgetting  the  needful  black  pocket-book,  and  long 
elastic  black  silk  purse.  A  similar  scene  took  place  to 
that  which  befell  the  young  Frenchman,  excepting  that 
Charles  Maxwell's  decision  was  accelerated  by  the  ar- 
rival of  a  lot  of  "-returned  acceptances,"  in  lieu  of  one 
long  tailor's  bill.  It  were  hard  to  say  whether  the 
English  or  the  French  gentleman  was  most  elated  by 
his  sudden  accumulation  of  wealth,  and  unexpected 
escape  from  disgrace. 

One  dreamed  of  horses,  dogs,  wines,  houses,  &C.  &c., 
the  other,  of  operas,  dancers,  rouge  et  noir,  titles,  &c. 
(fee.  One  resolved  to  forsake  the  counting-house;  the 
other  resolved  to  forsake  the  law;  thereby  clearly 
evincing  that  the  heart  of  neither  was  engaged  in  the 
pursuit  for  which  he  had  been  destined, — a  fact  which 
perhaps  it  would  have  been  better  if  their  parents 
could  have  ascertained,  ere  they  had 


20  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

"Bound  them  to  that  oar, 
Which  thousands,  once  lashed  fast  to,  quit  no  more.'' 

When  the  bargain  was  concluded  between  young 
Charles  and  his  new  ally,  he  politely  asked  him  to  stay 
and  dine  with  him.  "Excuse  the  liberty  I  take," — and 
he  rang  the  bell,  which  was  immediately  answered  by 
a  footman.  Dinner  was  ordered,  and  a  wondering 
clerk  despatched  to  his  no  less  wondering  bankers,  with 
the  sum  of  one  hundred  thousand  pounds,  and  a  verbal 
message,  that  he  had  received  their  note,  and  should 
not  trouble  them  for  the  "discounts"  mentioned  yester- 
day. A  dinner  tete-a-teie,  passed  off  delightfully  be- 
tween the  new  acquaintances.  The  gentleman  in  black 
drank  his  wine  freely,  and  bottle  after  bottle  of  the 
old  supernaculum  appeared  and  disappeared  with  mar- 
vellous celerity.  Charles  talked  of  what  he  would  do, 
and  wdicre  he  would  go;  and  how  he  would  astonish 
the  natives,  and  purchase  an  estate  in  the  country,  and 
buy  himself  into  parliament;  whereat  the  dark  gentle- 
man gave  a  singular  proof  of  his  satisfaction,  which, 
had  it  not  been  that  "wine  worketh  wonders,"  would 
probably  have  broken  up  their  party.^ 

"What  is  that  moving  and  rustling  about  behind  you, 
under  your  cloak?"  exclaimed  Charles,  gazing  stupidly, 
as  a  drunken  man  often  does  when  staring  at  something 
going  on  before  him  which  he  cannot  exactly  under- 
stand. 

"Oh!  it's  only  my  tail,  which  I'm  wagging,  replied 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  21 

his  guest,  "it's  a  way  we  have  whenever  w^e  are  very 
much  pleased." 

''Oho!  old  gentleman!"  observed  Charles,  "then  you 
enjoy  yourself,  ehl  you  take  my  jokes,  eh?  you're  a  bit 
of  a  wag,  eh?" 

"Yes,"  dryly  replied  his  companion,  "I  wag  my  tail." 

"It's  monstrously  droll,"  added  Charles,  hiccupping; 
"but  the  fact  is,  my  comical,  old  Mr.  What-d'ye-call- 
em,  we  have  many  ways,  almost  as  whimsical,  among 
ourselves." 

"If  you  object  to  my  custom ?''  said  the  gentle- 
man of  the  black,  rustling  cloak,  bowing  politely — 

"Oh,  by  no  means,"  replied  Charles,  "sport  your 
opossum  as  you  please;  only,  none  of  your  long  t-a-l-e-s. 
Ha!  ha!  A  devihsh  pleasant  conceit!  isn't,  old  boy;  come 
fill  your  glass.  I  always  hated  lo7}g  stories;  don't 
you?" 

"Why,  not  precisely  so,"  answered  the  other,  filling 
his  glass;  "for  the  fact  is,  that  I  invented  them." 

About  this  time  it  w^as,  that  Charles's  speech  began 
to  announce  that  he  was  "overtaken;"  and  he  never 
could  remember  how  or  when  he  and  his  sable  ally 
parted.  Something  there  was  floating  in  his  recollec- 
tion next  morning  about  having  been  in  the  streets, 
and  of  a  row;  and  a  sort  of  a  mill; — but  the  particulars 
he  could  not  recall.  The  black  smelling-bottle,  in  the 
black  ebony  case,  instantly  dispersed  the  unpleasant 
effects  of  his  late  debauch;  but  it  was  not  intended  to 
enable  him  to  reflect  clearly  on  the  past. 


22  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

The  next  morning  he  paced  his  room,  after  break- 
fast, endeavouring  to  settle  within  his  own  mind,  some 
plan  of  operation,  by  which  he  might  reap  the  most 
perfect  enjoyment  from  the  golden  harvest  before  him. 
From  this  reverie  he  was  aroused  by  the  entrance  of 
his  late  father's  confidential  clerk,  with  an  arm-full 
and  a  bag-full  of  papers.  Charles  noticed  the  honest 
anxiety  expressed  in  his  countenance,  and  at  once  re- 
solved to  make  him  happy. 

"Take  a  seat,  Mr.  Ledger,"  said  he,  ^'I  wished  to  see 
you  on  business.-' 

"Indeed,  Sir,"  ejaculated  the  astonished  clerk. 

'•'Yes,"  indeed!"  repeated  Charles,  seating  himself  at 
the  table,  "for  I'm  off  to  Melton  in  an  hour," 

"My  dear  Sir,"  said  Mr.  Ledger,  imploringly,  "let  me 
entreat  you.  The  supply  you  obtained  yesterday  was 
most  providential.  I  am  delighted  that  you  have  yet 
such  friends  left:  but  it  must  be  repaid,  and  the  con- 
cerns of  the  house  are,  I  am  sorry  to  say " 

"Confound  the  concerns  of  the  house!"  exclaimed 
Charles. 

"What  do  I  hear!"  ejaculated  Ledger;  "alas!  alas! 
my  dear  Sir,  they  are  already  confounded.  And  yet, 
if  we  could  but  obtain  assistance  for  a  few  months  only, 
and  you  would  leave  off  drawing  such  heavy  bills  on 
your  private  account " 

"What,  then,"  asked  Charles,  "do  you  really  think 
such  a  beggarly  concern  worth  carrying  on." 

"Beggarly,  Sir!"  said  Ledger,  rising  from  his  seat, 


THEGENTLEMANINELACK.  23 

and  all  the  blood  in  his  body  apparently  rushing  to  his 

face;  "Sir!  if  any  other  person  had  dared -;  but  you 

are  his  son Oh!  that  I  should  live  to  see  the  day! 

My  poor  dear  master!  no  man  named  him  but  with 
respect."  ♦ 

Here  the  poor  fellow  was  utterly  overpowered,  and 
sinking,  exhausted,  on  the  chair,  sobbed  like  a  child. 
Charles  caught  the  infection,  and  looked  at  his  father's 
humble  friend,  with  feelings  far  different  from  those 
which  the  money  now  at  his  command  was  intended 
by  the  donor  to  produce.  He  certainly  was  not,  at 
that  moment,  committing  his  stipulated  quantum  of  sin. 

"Mr.  Ledger,"  said  he,  at  length,  "I  most  earnestly 
entreat  your  pardon  for  having  trifled  with  your  feel- 
ings; but  the  fact  is,  I  have  made  up  my  mind" 

"Oh,  don't  say  so,  my  dear  Sir,"  said  the  clerk,  inter- 
rupting him,  from  dread  of  the  termination  of  his  sen- 
tence, "just  look  over  these  papers — and,  if  the  loan 
you  obtained  so  miraculously  can  be  continued  but  for 
a  few  months — and  you  will  only — in  moderation — Sir 
— pray  don't  take  my  freedom  amiss — we  may  still  go 
on — and  the  profits  are — have  been — will  be,  I  pledge 
my  word — ample — more  than  sufficient  for  all  that  any 
gentleman  could — that  is,  ought — don't  be  offended,  I 
entreat  you,  Sir." 

"Not  I,"  replied  Charles,  "I'm  glad  to  hear  you  give 
so  good  an  accout  of  the  concern,  as  you  call  it.  For 
my  own  part,  it  is  no  concern  of  mine  now.  If  you 
think  it  worth  your  acceptance,  take  it  and  welcome. 


24  T  H  E    G  E  N  T  L  E  M  A  N    I  N    B  L  A  C  K  . 

As  for  me,  thank  God — no — I  don't  exactly  mean  that 
— but  the  fact  is,  I  can  do  very  well  without  it." 

Poor  Ledger's  eyes  and  mouth  were  wide  open, 
though  he  doubted  much  if  that  could  be  the  case  with 
his  ears:  but  the  reader  shall  not  be  troubled  with  an 
attempt  to  describe  his  feelings.  Suffice  it  to  say, 
that  he  would  not  accept  more  than  a  small  share  of 
the  profits,  the  remainder  to  be  duly  carried  to  the 
credit  side  of  his  young  master's  account  in  the  "pri- 
vate leger."  As  a  matter  of  course,  he  was  to  manage 
the  whole  affair  as  he  thought  fit;  and,  as  a  matter  of 
course  with  Charles  Maxwell,  he  troubled  him  not 
with  any  more  large  drafts,  nor  asked  for  a  farthing  of 
the  profits;  all  which  surprised  and  perplexed  Mr. 
Ledger,  who  endeavoured  to  account  for  the  circum- 
stance by  supposing  that  the  young  man  had  discover- 
ed some  stock  which  his  late  father  had  privately  in- 
vested, or  that  some  mining  shares,  which  had  been 
put  by  as  worthless,  had  turned  up  trumps;  or  that  he 
had  got  a  prize  in  the  lottery,  or — in  short  he  could 
not  exactly  make  it  out.  So  he  dipped  his  pen  in  the 
inkstand,  and  stuck  to  his  desk;  consoling  himself  with 
the  reflection,  that  he  was  preparing  a  haven  in  which 
his  young  master  and  benefactor  might  find  shelter, 
whenever  he  should  be  driven  in  by  the  storm. 

It  has  been  already  stated  that  Charles  Maxwell 
was  in  love,  and  stated  too  upon  his  own  authority. 
He  said  so,  he  thought  so — and  yet  vvhen  riches  poured 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  25 

in  upon  him  as  a  flood,  he  went  to  Melton  first — then 
came  to  London,  and 


Ran  each  extreme  of  folly  through, 
And  lived  with  half  the  town, 

yet  never  allowed  his  mind  to  dwell  upon  the  charms 
of  Clara  Haultaught,  the  old  Admiral's  daughter,  with 
whom  he  had  danced  and  fallen  in  love,  all  in  the  re- 
gular way,  at  a  Leicester  "county"  ball.  The  fact  is, 
he  had  no  time,  fpr  men  of  pleasure  never  have,  "pro- 
vided always,"  as  the  lawyers  have  it,  that  they  are 
provided  always  with  money  and  health.  When  either 
of  these  fall  short,  your  mere  men  of  pleasure  are  sad 
twaddlers,  and  have  time  enough  to  weary  themselves 
and  their  friends  by  all  manner  of  wearisome  ways, 
and  ill-supported  pretensions.  Which  position  should 
any  reader  doubt,  let  him  go  to  Bath  and  learn 
wisdom. 

To  travel  abroad  gives  a  man  an  air,  say  some  folks, 
and  Charles  Maxwell  went  off,  therefore,  to  breathe 
and  bring  home  some  foreign  air.  Here  it  may  be  as 
w^ell  to  observe,  by  way  of  avoiding  difficulties  here- 
after, that  the  time  of  which  we  write  was  some  year 
or  two  before  the  revolution,  so  called,  as  the  French 
say,  "par  excellence,"  because  it  was  the  vilest,  the 
most  sanguinary,  and  the  most  fearful  and  extensive  in 
its  consequences,  of  any  on  the  records  of  either  an- 
cient or  modern  history.  The  reader  need  scarcely  be 
c 


26  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

told  it  is  the  French  revolution  of  1790  to  which  we 
allude. 

Charles,  of  course,  went  first  to  Paris,  and  there, 
almost  of  course,  became  acquainted  with  Louis  De- 
songes;  for  it  was  barely  possible  that  two  young  men, 
possessing  the  unlimited  command  of  money,  however 
different  might  be  their  habits,  should  not  come  into 
contact  when  pursuing  some  of  the  innumerable  follies 
and  pleasures  of  that  most  foolish  and  pleasurable  me- 
tropolis. 

When  an  Englishman  is  in  Paris,  whatever  may  be 
his  natural  taste  or  propensity,  he  must  see  every 
thing;  and,  with  this  laudable  spirit  of  inquiry,  Charles 
Maxwell  betook  himself  to  a  notorious  gambling-house, 
though  he  had  not  the  smallest  taste  for  such  amuse- 
ments. Louis  Desonges  happened  to  be  there  at  the 
time,  and  was  interesting  himself  as  much  in  the  game 
as  a  man  could  possibly  do  to  whom  it  was  perfectly 
immaterial  whether  he  lost  or  won.  The  air  of  gayety 
and  nonchalance  with  which  he  paid  several  heavy 
losses  attracted  the  Englishman's  attention,  and  after  a 
few  minutes  they  betted  together,  won,  lost,  paid  and 
received  immense  sums,  with  such  utter  carelessness 
and  good  humour,  as  astonished  each  other,  and  made 
the  bystanders  imagine  that  their  bets  were  fictitious, 
and  made  for  some  sinister,  though  (strange  to  say 
among  Parisian  adepts)  undiscernable  purpose.  Under 
this  impression  all  play  was  at  a  stand;  and  Charles, 
after  exchanging  cards  with  his  new  friend,  walked  oflf 


THEGENTLEMANIN    BLACK.  27 

with  bills  to  the  amount  of  about  two  million  and  a 
half  of  livres,  that  is,  in  English  money,  about  a  hun- 
dred thousand  pounds,  leaving  his  antagonist  without 
the  smallest  symptom  of  "desespoir,^^  so  common  to  all, 
but  more  particularly  to  French  gamesters.  The  next 
morning  Charles  felt,  that,  nowithstanding  the  young 
Frenchman's  gayety  and  admirable  presence  of  mind 
the  preceding  night,  the  loss  of  such  a  sum  must  be  his 
utter  ruin;  and,  therefore,  with  the  most  philanthropic 
intention  of  restoring  his  winnings  by  making  some 
foolish  bet,  he  ordered  his  coachman  to  driv^e  to  the 
Rue  do  rUniversite,  where  he  found  the  young  gam- 
bler at  home,  in  his  own  most  splendid  hotel.  The  whole 
affair — lamps — silken  curtains,  sofas  and  chairs — the 
silken  silence  of  the  servants — statues — paintings — 
books  in  the  most  splendid  bindings  ranged  in  battalia, 
while  some  half  dozen  were  thrown  carelessly  on  the 
floor,  like  the  most  exquisitely  dressed  among  the  brave 
after  an  engagement, — all — all — breathed  of  wealth. 
"Good  Heavens!"  exclaimed  Charles,  "and  /,  for  the  gra- 
tification of  a  mere  whim,  for  /have  not  the  excuse  of 
other  men,  have  perhaps  destroyed  this  young  man's  hap- 
piness forever — his  father's  gray  hairs — his  poor  portion- 
less sisters — thrown,  like  young  unfledged  birds,  from  the 
genial  warmth  of  their  parent's  downy  nest,  upon  the 
sharp  rocks  of  this  world,  while  the  bleak  winds  of 

adversity" 

The  entrance  of  Louis  Desonges  here  saved  him  the 
trouble  of  completing  his  picture.     Not  a  vestige  of 


28  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

nocturnal,  involuntary  vigilance,  shaded  his  handsome 
and  intelligent  countenance.  His  eye  sparkled  with 
pleasure  at  the  sight  of  his  new  acquaintance,  but  it 
was  unclouded  by  the  unsteady  brow  that  rises  and 
falls,  and  will  tell,  as  if  in  spite  of  its  owner,  how  the 
gamester's  heart  throbs,  and  warms,  and  grows  cold. 
The  fact  was,  Louis  saw  before  him  a  rich  young  English- 
man, a  character  with  which  he  had  long  wished  to  be 
acquainted;  but  from  their  habitual  reserve,  (such,  be 
it  remembered,  was  then  our  national  character,)  had 
ever  been  foiled  in  the  attempt.  He  rushed  across  the 
room,  and  warmly  shook  Charles  by  the  hand. 

"He  estimates  my  motive  for  coming,"  thought  the 
latter;  "'tis  well!" 

"Have  you  breakfasted,  so  early?"  asked  Louis,  gayly. 

"No,  my  good  Sir,"  was  the  reply;  the  fact  is,  that 
my  mind  was  somewhat  uneasy  about  the  affair  of  last 
night.  You  excuse  my  bluntncss,  I  trust,  but  we 
English" 

"Are  strange  fellows;  I've  always  understood  so.  I 
want  to  see  more  of  you; — allons  a  dejeuner! — Ho! 
Auguste!  Roderique! — Who  waits  there? — Is  breakfast 
ready?" 

Our  heroes  were  ushered,  by  a  petit-maitre  out  of 
livery,  through  a  suite  of  rooms,  adorned  with  an  in- 
attention to  expense  truly  wonderful,  until  they  ar- 
rived at  a  saloon,  opening  into  a  garden,  from  whence 
the  perfumed  air,  and  the  light  of  heaven,  were  scien- 
tifically allowed  admittance  through  verandas,  Vene- 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  29 

lian   blinds,  lace   and   muslin  curtains,   &c.   &c.     In 
brief,  all  was  "superbe  et  magnifique." 

"Are  you  yet  Frenchman  enough  to  take  our  light 
wines  at  breakfast?"  asked  Louis,  as  soon  as  they  were 
seated. 

"When  we  are  at  Rome "  replied  Charles. 

"Precisely  so,"  said  Louis,  "it's  my  way." 

"He  has  not  lost  his  appetite,"  thought  Charles. 

"You    don't  eat,  my  dear  Sir,"  observed   Louis; — 

"allow  me my  cook  is  generally  thought  to  excel. — 

Are  these  kidnies  in  champagne,  Pierre? 

"Oui,  Monsieur!"  replied  a  powdered  lacquey,  mak- 
ing a  low  obeisance.  Louis  recommended,  and  Charles 
ate;  and  Charles  recommended,  and  Louis  drank;  nei- 
ther caring  about  their  health,  which  was  secured  to 
them  by  their  mutual  friend;  and  each  possessing,  un- 
known to  the  other,  a  wonderful  black  cut-glass  bottle, 
in  a  black  ebony  case.  Charles's  motive  was  to  make 
the  young  Frenchman  drunk;  and  then  to  return  him 
his  money,  and  make  him  believe  he  had  won  it:  while 
Louis,  having  now  caught  a  rich  young  Englishman  in 
his  own  house,  was  determined  to  understand  the  real 
character  of  the  nation  to  which  he  belonged;  and,  im- 
primis, to  ascertain  how  much  one  of  them  could  eat 
and  drink  at  a  "dejeune  a  la  fourchette." 

The  champagne  sparkled  and  disappeared,  and 
Charles  found  courage  to  allude  to  the  affair  of  the 
preceding  evening.  Louis  smiled  and  said  it  was  no- 
thing. 

c  2 


30  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

"Pardon  me,  my  dear  Sir,"  observed  Charles,  drawing 
his  chair  closer;  "such  a  sum  must  be  something  to  any 
body." 

"Don't  mention  it,"  said  Louis;  "I  shall  never  miss  it; 
and  am  glad  it  has  fallen  into  such  hands  as  your's." 

"I'll  bet  you  double  the  sum  it's  more  than  you  are 
nov^r  worth  in  the  world,"  said  Charles,  bluntly,  after 
swallowing  a  half-pint  bumper. 

"Done!"  exclaimed  Louis. 

"Done!"  replied  Charles.  The  servants  were  order- 
ed out  of  the  room;  and  Louis,  going  to  a  secretaire, 
which  stood  in  a  recess,  returned  immediately,  and 
threw  more  than  the  needful  amount  upon  the  table. 
Charles  was  astonished,  and  was  about  to  pay,  when  a 
sudden  thought  struck  him,  and  he  hesitated. 

"Never  mind,"  said  Louis,  "pay  me  when  you  like; 
or  never:  it  is  of  no  consequence." 

"On  honour^  let  me  ask,"  said  Charles;  "is  that  pile  of 
gold  your  own*?" 

"It  is,"  replied  Louis,  "I  have  made  it  a  rule  never 
to  feel  offended  at  any  remarks  a  loser  may  make. 
There's  my  hand,  and  my  honour  pledged.  Few  can 
bear  to  lose  so  well  as  I  can.  Indeed  it  would  be  strange 
if  they  could." 

"Then  it  only  remains  for  me  to  pay,"  observed 
Charles,  calmly;  and  he  took  out  his  black  morocco 
leather  pocket-book  for  that  purpose,  while  Louis  re- 
placed the  money  which  he  had  taken  from  the  secre- 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  31 

taire,  and  brought  from  thence  a  certain  specific  for 
the  dizziness  which  he  found  collecting  in  his  head. 

"I  believe  you'll  find  all  right,"  said  Charles. 

"xVo  doubt,"  replied  the  other,  carelessly;  but  I'd 
rather  you  should  have  won,  by  Saint  Louis!"  he  then 
thought  within  himself, — "I've  heard  much  of  English 
riches  and  prodigality,  but  this  surpasses  all  I  could 
have  imagined;"  and  he  applied  the  nostrum  to  his 
nose. 

"What  do  I  see?"  cried  Charles,  feeling  that  his  own 
lay  safely  at  the  bottom  of  his  pocket.  "Where  did 
you  get  that  bottle?' 

"It  was  given  me  by  a a friend;  I'll  bet  you 

double  that  sum  upon  the  table,  that  there  is  not  it's 
fellow  in  France."  "Done,"  and  "done,"  said  each; 
and  Charles  produced  his  black  bottle.  They  were  ex- 
amined, compared,  and  smelt  too. 

"I  have  lost,"  said  Louis;  "it's  very  odd;"  and  went 
again  to  the  inexhaustible  escrutoire  for  payment. 
Charles  rolled  the  mass  of  papers  together,  and  squeez- 
ed them  into  the  black  morocco  pocket-book,  aforesaid, 
which  caught  the  eye  of  Louis,  and  caused  him  in  his 
turn,  to  exclaim,  "where  did  you  get  that  black  mo- 
rocco book?" 

^_J  "Where  I  got  this  black  elastic  silk  purse,"  replied 
Charles;  beginning  to  haul  out  his  riches,  as  sailors  do 
a  cable.  The  secret  was  out.  The  two  unfortunate 
young  men  snuffed  up  the  contents  of  their  two  black 
cut-glass  bottles,  in  two  black  ebony  cases,  till  their 


32  TJlE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

heads  were  cleared  from  the  effects  of  the  wine;  and 
then  sat  themselves  down  to  compare  notes,  and  swear 
an  everlasting  friendship. 

"Do  you  know  what  to  do  with  that  money  on  the 
table?"  asked  Louis  as  they  were  going  out;  "you  know 
that  was  no  part  of  your  compact,  and,  consequently, 
will  not  vanish  at  night,  as  that  which  is  left  out  of 
what  we  demand  during  the  day  always  does.  That 
sum  you  won  from  me,  and  when  it  changes  hands,  you 
know " 

"A  good  idea!"  exclaimed  Charles,  "it's  the  only 
money  I  ever  won  at  play,  and  1  didn't  consider  the 
difference.  I  see  no  reason  why  we  should  spare  our 
dark  acquaintance.  Let  me  see? — Oh!  I  have  it.  Ex- 
cuse me,  I'll  only  write  a  few  lines,  and  send  off  the 
pacquet  directly."  Accordingly  he  indited  the  first 
letter  of  business  with  which  he  had  ever  troubled  Mr. 
Ledger,  and  enclosed  therein  nearly  five  hundred 
thousand  pounds  sterling. 


CHAPTER  II. 

At  the  moment  when  Charles  had  folded  up  the 
letter  to  Mr.  Ledger,  a  servant  in  livery  opened  the 
door,  and  stood  respectfully  bowing,  as  though  waiting 
his  master's  commands.  "What  the  devil  brings  you 
here?"  asked  Louis. 

"I  beg  your  pardon,  Sir,"  said  the  man  bending  al- 
most to  the  ground,  *^I  thought  you  rang." 

"Not  I,"  replied  Louis,  "so  take  yourself  ofK" 

"Perhaps,''  observed  the  party-coloured  gentleman, 
as  he  sidled  obsequiously  toward  Charles,  ^'Monsieur 
might  have" 

"Oh,  ah!  very  true,"  Charles  observed,  carelessly, 
"with  your  leave,  my  dear  Sir,  I'll  get  your  man  to 
take  this  letter  to  the  post." 

The  footman  bowed,  and  was  in  the  act  of  receiving 
the  letter  from  Charles,  when  Louis  suddenly  started 
up,  and  knocked  it  out  of  his  hand,  exclaiming,  "You 
abominable  old  rascal!  Take  up  the  letter,  Maxwell, 
and  put  it  into  your  pocket.  And  now,  look  at  this 
long-tailed,  periwigged,  powdered  fellow,  and  say  if 
you  have  ever  seen  him  before." 

Charles  instantly  recognised  his  friend  "autrefois,"  in 


34  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

black,  and  joined  Louis  in  violent  invectives  against 
such  sneaking,  unhandsome,  ungentleman-like  conduct; 
whereat  the  aforesaid  gentleman  declared  that  he 
considered  himself  extremely  ill-used  by  the  appropria- 
tion of  such  a  sum  to  the  service  of  Mr.  Ledger,  a  per- 
son with  whom  he  had  no  sort  of  acquaintance  or  con- 
cern. The  young  friends  were,  however,  too  much 
elated  at  the  idea  of  having  outwitted  the  old  fellow,  to 
give  way  an  inch;  and  he,  unwilling  to  quarrel  with  two 
such  promising  youths,  forbore  to  press  the  matter. 
They,  therefore,  sat  down  together  in  friendly  chat, 
and  he  expressed  a  hope  that  their  wishes  had  been 
complied  with,  and  that  all  had  gone  on  pleasantly  and 
according  to  the  strict  letter  of  the  compact  *'lf  not," 
he  continued,  ^'let  me  know,  now  I  am  here,  and  I  will 
see  to  it — as  my  servants  do  not  always  act  precisely 
as  I  could  wish,  during  my  absence." 

"Then  they  are  somewhat 'like  ours,"  said  Louis; 
"there's  always  something  left  undone  about  my  place, 
though  1  keep  so  many  that  I  don't  know  the  faces  of 
half  of  them.  It's  the  greatest  wonder  in  the  world 
that  I  looked  at  yours." 

*'You  cannot  keep  too  many,"  repUed  the  middle- 
aged  gentleman;  "I  like  people  to  keep  plenty  of  livery 
servants;  let  them  Hve  well,  have  high  wages  and  but 
little  to  do.  That's  the  proper  style,  Sir,  for  me;  I " 

"By  the  way,"  said  Louis,  "talking  of  livery  servants 
— let  me  tell  you  that  1  do  not  think  it  is  altogether 


THEGENTLEMANIN    BLACK.  35 

decorous  for  you  to  be  sitting  here,  talking  to  two  gen- 
tlemen, in  such  a  dress  as  you  now  wear." 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  the  old  gentleman,  '-as  you 

justly  observe,  it  is  hardly  correct,  and  so ,"  and, 

rising  up,  he  stood  awhile  upon  one  leg,  and  began  to 
move  round  thereon,  in  a  sort  of  pirouette,  first  slowly, 
and  then  gradually  increasing  in  velocity,  until  no  part 
of  the  man  was  completely  visible:  then,  the  spinning 
as  gradually  subsided,  till,  by  degrees,  there  appeared 
to  the  wondering  friends,  the  identical  black  Geneva 
cloak,  black  bag,  coat,  waistcoat,  &c.,  &c.,  which  had 
formerly  riveted  their  attention:  and  forthwith  their 
sable  friend  sprang  over  the  back  of  a  chair,  and  seat- 
ed himself  therein,  with  the  most  perfect  and  gentle- 
manly nonchalance. 

"Bravo!  bravo!  well  done,  old  boy!"  exclaimed  Louis. 
*'l  wish  you'd  give  some  of  our  opera  dancers  a  lesson." 

**I  have,''  replied  the  gentleman  in  black. 

"Good,"  said  Charles,  "I  believe  you.  But  you  must 
be  fatigued  after  your  exertion;  won't  you  take  some 
refreshment. " 

"With  much  pleasure,"  answered  he  of  the  sables. 
Come,"  and  he  helped  himself  to  a  half-pint  bumper  of 
champagne,  "let  us  take  a  friendly  glass  together. 
This  buries  all  animosities.  I  couldn't  help  feeling  a 
little  sore  at  the  idea  of  a  man  of  business — a  plodding, 
humdrum  sort  of  fellow,  having  that  money — I  like 
your  idle,  careless,  negligent,  or  dashing  sort  of  fellows 
best.     But  never  mind,  perhaps  it  may  lead  him  to 


36  THE    GENTLEMAN   IN    BLACK. 

speculate.  Allow  me — ^you  don't  help  yourself—- there 
— I  like  your  English  fashion  of  drinking  best.  Come, 
Sir,  the  bottle  stands  with  you." 

"What  in  the  world  are  you  thinking  about?"  said 
Charles,  "It  is  scarcely  one  o'clock!  Nobody  thinks  of 
drinking  at  such  an  hour." 

"What  signifies  what  other  people  think?"  replied 
the  gentleman  of  the  black  bottle;  "I  am  particularly 
partial  to  the  custom  of  drinking  early  in  the  day. 
Nothing  can  be  more  ridiculous  than  the  present 
fashion  of  fasting  all  day,  and  then  dining  at  what  used 
to  be  the  cheerful  supper  hour.  Pshaw!  You  take 
about  half  a  dozen  glasses  of  wine;  and  then,  just  at 
the  instant  you  begin  to  enjoy  yourself,  coffee  is  an- 
nounced, and  you  creep  off  to  bed.  Now,  my  dear 
Sir, — but  come,  fill  your  glasses,  my  dear  fellows! 
Just,  for  once,  oblige  me.  I  am  really  excessively 
thirsty;  and,  on  honour,  M.  Le  Baron,  considering  that 
I  am  now  your  guest,  and  that  your  country  fashions 
are  not  decidedly  against  the  custom;  and,  moreover, 
as  French  politesse  is  proverbial  among  all  the  nations 
of  the  earth,  I  trust  you  will  not  object." 

"Excellently  urged,"  observed  Charles  Maxwell, 
who  began  somewhat  to  enjoy  the  whim  of  the  thing; 
"aliens,  my  dear  friend,  allow  the  old  fellow  to  indulge 
his  odd  humours  for  once.  It  can't  be  of  much  conse- 
quence. What  need  we  to  care  for  appearances  and 
what  other  people  think." 

"Truly,"  replied  Louis,  "1  know  not  why  indeed." 


THEGENTLEMANIN    BLACK.  37 

"Then,  Sir,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  who  now 
assumed  a  generalship  over  a  range  of  black  bottles 
which  he  had  summoned  into  the  room,  "we  will  begin 
our  sitting.  In  the  first  place,  I  beg  to  observe  that, 
as  wine  makes  a  man  happy,  the  earlier  he  begins  to 
drink  after  he  rises,  the  more  happiness  falls  to  his  lot, 
as  he  has  then  all  the  day  before  him,  to  be  enjoyed  in 
high  spirits  and  an  utter  emancipation  from  care,  and 
that  abominable  nuisance  called  thought.  So  here 
goes!  my  dear  boys.  Excuse  me — empty  your  glass — 
I'm  a  great  stickler  for  forms  in  drinking.  No  day- 
light in  the  first  instance,  and  no  heel-taps  in  the  se- 
cond. That's  my  way.  Hem!  Perhaps  I  may  have 
seemed  somewhat  prolix  on  this  occasion:  but,  the  fact 
is,  I  cannot  endure  to  see  a  man  pass  the  bottle.  It  is, 
in  my  opinion,  the  acme,  or  rather,  perhaps,  the  bathos 
of  low  and  ill  breeding.  If  there  be  anything  more 
ungentlemanlike,  it  is  the  conduct  of  a  president  who 
suffers  anything  of  thq  sort,  without  inflicting  bumper 
fines." 

"Upon  my  word,  Sir,"  said  Charles,  "You  are  be- 
come very  arbitrary." 

"Perhaps  it  may  appear  so,"  repHed  the  gentleman 
in  black,  "at  all  events  I  have  talked  more  than  is  my 
wont.  But  I  hope  never  to  see  the  day  when  it  shall 
be  considered  rude  to  press  a  gentleman  to  take  his 
wine.  Monsieur  Desonges,  the  bottle  stands  with  you, 
and  you  are  wanted.  What  in  the  world  are  you  think- 
ing about?" 


38  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

"I  beg  your  pardon,  gentlemen!**  exclaimed  Louis, 
*'I  was  up  late  last  night,  and  really " 

*'Pshaw!"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  "You  are 
half  asleep — here — take  a  pinch  of  my  genuine — it 
will  rouse  you,"  then,  handing  his  blackguard  to  the 
Frenchman,  he  whispered  in  Charles's  ear,  *'These 
Monsieurs  are  poor  creatures  when  compared  with 
you  English.  And  then  their  wines — What  are  they? 
The  flavour  is  very  well,  to  be  sure:  but,  by  all  that's 
dusky!  one  might  drink  a  hogshead  for  any  eifect  it 
would  have  on  such  heads  as  yours  and  mine.  No, 
my  dear  Sir,  there's  nothing  like  your  English  port, 
black  and  strong — Eh?" 

"I  don't  like  that  snuff,"  said  Louis,  returning  the 
box,  "blackguard  does  not  exactly  s^iit  me." 

"Then  try  this,"  quoth  he  of  the  black  Geneva 
cloak,  taking  from  his  pocket  a  curiously  carved 
"sneezer,"  made  from  Vesuvian  lava.  "It  is  a  mixture 
which  I  have  lately  introduced,  and  which  appears 
iikely  to  become  a  favourite  among  your  rising  men, 
though  the  old  courtiers  think  it  somewhat  too  strong." 

Louis,  after  a  violent  fit  of  sneezing,  exclaimed, 
"strong,  indeed?" 

"It  seems  well  calculated,"  observed  Charles,  "to 
prevent  a  man  from  going  to  sleep." 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  "It 
is  a  mixture  of  Paris  black  rappee  and  hellebore,  and 
just  now  in  great  request  among  the  deputies  here." 

The  trio  now  "set  in"  for  a  regular  drinking  bout, 


THEGENTLEMANINELACK.  39 

in  which  it  is  almost  unnecessary  to  say  the  gentleman 
in  black  was  too  much  for  the  two  young  men.  As 
usual  on  such  occasions,  they  came  to  high  words,  and 
Charles  flatly  accused  the  president  of  a  breach  of  pro- 
mise. 

"It  is  of  no  use  to  contradict  me,"  said  he,  '*I  remem- 
ber your  words  as  plainly  as  possible — as  though  it 
were  but  yesterday.  We  were  taking  our  wine  after 
dinner,  when  you  dined  with  me  in  the  City,  and  you 
appeared  highly  pleased  with  the  flavour  of  a  bin 
which  I  called  my  supernaculum:  and  you  promised, 
I'll  take  my  oath  of  it!" 

*•!  beg  you  will  do  nothing  of  the  sort,"  ejaculated 
the  gentleman  in  black,  "I  particularly  object  to  such 
customs — besides,  among  gentlemen,  they  cannot  be 
necessary.  And,  now  I  think  of  it,  I  seem  to  have 
some   faint  recollection — but,  you  know,  we  took   a 

great  deal  of  wine  that  day,  and,  perhaps but,  I 

beg  your  pardon,  the  bottle  stands  with  you." 

**I  see  your  drift,"  said  Charles,  filling  his  glass  boldly, 
*'but  allow  me  to  tell  you,  old  boy,  that,  if  we  were  to 
sit  here  from  this  time  till  to-morrow,  I'll  not  be  driven 
from  the  point.  You  did,  then  and  there,  faithfully 
promise  me,  that  one  bin  in  my  cellar  should  always 
be  filled  with  that  identical  sort  of  wine." 

"Sir,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  "I  now  per- 
fectly recollect  the  circumstance,  and  feel  perfectly 
astonished  at  your  having  any  cause  of  complaint,  as  I 
gave  the  necessary  orders  to  a  London  wine-merchant, 


40  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

with  whom  I  have  long  been  on  terms  of  intimacy. 
Our  transactions  together  have  been  numerous,  and 
generally  conducted  in  a  manner  perfectly  satisfactory 
to  both  parties." 

"My  dear  Sir,"  said  Charles,  "the  wine  was  no  more 
like  my  o/c?  supernaculum,  than  you  are  like  my  grand- 
mother." 

"Bah!"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  "Was  your 
wine  old?" 

"Certainly  it  was,"  Charles  answered,  "very  old;  I 
know  not  how  old;  and,  yet,  full  of  body  and  flavour. — 
You  must  remember  it." 

"Then,  Sir,"  calmly  observed  the  gentleman  in  black, 
"the  case  is  completely  altered,  and  you  have  no  right 
to  complain.  The  bin,  it  seems,  has  been  filled  accord- 
ing to  agreement.  But  you,  my  dear  Sir,  as  an  English- 
man and  a  wine  drinker — the  bottle  stands  with  you — 
you  must  be  perfectly  aware  that  it  is  utterly  out  of 
even  my  power,  to  make  new  wine  taste  like  old." 

Somewhat  of  the  same  sort  was  ungallantly  said  by 
the  gentleman  in  black,  respecting  the  knowledge  of 
ladies'  minds  and  tastes,  when  defending  himself  against 
a  charge  made  by  Louis,  concerning  the  non-fulfilment 
of  some  promises,  made  to  him,  of  success  in  certain 
adventures  of  the  heart.  Our  two  heroes,  indeed, 
could  not  fail  to  observe,  that  there  was  a  peculiar 
acerbity  and  testiness  about  their  elderly  friend,  when- 
ever ladies  were  the  topic  of  conversation.  They,  there- 
fore, purposely  introduced  the  subject  of  matrimony, 


TH  E    GENTLEMAN    IN    B  LAC  K.  41 

vhereupon  his  saturnine  complexion  assumed  a  hue 
nany  degrees  dingier  than  usual.  He  uttered  a  vio- 
lent philippic  against  the  married  life  in  general,  and 
then  went  into  a  lamentation  concerning  the  extreme 
folly  of  certain  of  his  own  friends  in  particular,  who, 
instead  of  enjoying  themselves  and  the  various  plea- 
sures which  had  previously  been  at  their  disposal,  had 
foolishly  become  heads  of  families;  "and  now,"  he  con- 
tinued, "they  live  in  the  most  miserable  hum-drum 
way  you  can  conceive,  canting  about  virtue,  and  do- 
mestic duties,  and  such  nonsense.  I  assure  you  the  cir- 
cumstance gives  me  an  infinite  deal  of  uneasiness.  I 
have  represented  the  thing  to  your  Chambers  here, 
and  have  some  hopes — but,  I  beg  your  pardon,  the 
bottle  stands  with  you — I  have  some  hopes  that  the 
detestable  rite  will  be  abolished  in  this  country.  No- 
thing can  be  more  ridiculous  and  tyrannical  than  that, 
because  two  people  happen  to  like  each  other  at  any 
particular  period,  they  should,  therefore,  be  compelled 
to  spend  all  their  lives  together.  It  is  really  the  height 
of  absurdity." 

"Let  us  talk  of  something  else,"  said  Charles,  whose 
thoughts  were  wandering  into  Leicestershire. 

"Pray,  old  Monsieur  Vaubrien,"  hiccuped  Louis, 
"were  you  ever  in  Jove?" 

"Bah!"  exclaimed  the  gentleman  in  black,  "What 

does  that  signify!     I  was  never  married,  I  can  tell  you 

that.     Hem!     The  bottle  stands  with  you." 

"And  the  question  stands  with  vou,"  observed  Charles, 
D  2 


42  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

*' What  objection  can  you  possibly  have  to  answering  it? 
Do  you  think  it  probable  that  either  my  friend  or  I 
should  attempt  to  rival  you,  or  fall  in  love  with  any 
*chere  amie'  of  yours?" 

"Nothing  more  likely,"  replied  the  dark  gentleman; 
and  withal  a  sardonic  grin  and  a  certain  twinkling  about 
the  eyes,  gave  a  peculiar  expression  of  vivacity  to  the 
speaker's  countenance  as  he  continued,  ever  and  anon 
helping  himself  to  a  pinch  of  blackguard,  ^'Nothing  is 
more  probable.  But,  my  dear  fellows,  don't  imagine 
that  I  can  possibly  be  jealous.  I  have  not  the  smallest 
objection,  I  assure  you— nay,  on  the  contrary,  it  would 
afford  me  the  greatest  imaginable  delight;  if  it  were 
only  to  see  what  sort  of  figure  you  would  make. — 1 
jealous,  indeed!  Ha!  ha!  ha!  I  like  the  idea  exceed- 
ingly! I  jealous!  Ha!  ha!  ha!"  and  the  dingy  old  beau 
looked  round  him  with  a  most  superb  expressioji  of  self- 
conceit. 

"Why  you  abominable  old  hoary  compound  of  vani- 
ty!" exclaimed  Louis,  "you  don't  mean  to  insinuate  that 
any  lady  to  whom  it  is  likely  that  either  of  us  should 
pay  our  devoirs,  can  possibly  have  admitted  you  as  a 
suitor!" 

"But  indeed,  I  do,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black, 
firmly.  "Aye,  and  in  this  'our  good  city  of  Paris'  too: 
and  let  me  tell  you,  that  at  this  very  moment,  there 
are  more  than  one  or  two  to  whom  my  society  and  con- 
vei'sation  are  more  than  commonly  agreeable." 

"Name  them!"  cried  Charles. 


THEGENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  43 

**Aye,  name,  name!  Let  us  come  to  the  point!" 
ejaculated  Louis. 

**With  all  my  heart,"  replied  the  black  boaster, 
rapping  his  black  rappee  and  hellebore,  "I  have  no 
nonsensical  squeamish  objections  on  that  head.  I  hate 
a  fellow  that  hesitates  about  introducing  a  lady's 
name  over  a  glass  of  wine  among  friends.  Come!  Fill 
your  glasses!  Here's  a  bumper  to  the  lovely,  accom- 
plished and  adorable         #  #  «  * " 

**You  infernal  old  coxcomb!"  exclaimed  Louis. 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black. 

*'A  lady  of  her  rank  and  beauty!"  cried  Charles. 

"Precisely  so,"  was  again  the  reply.  "And  now," 
continued  the  dark  old  reprobate,  "as  my  presence  is 
particularly  necessary  just  now  in  the  Palais  Royal, 
and  we  have  taken  precisely  wine  enough,  it  may  be 
as  well  to  save  time;  and  so " 

"Here  he  stooped  down  and  fumbled  awhile  in  his 
black  bag,  which  stood,  as  usual,  between  his  knees. 

"Ah — hem — yes — there  they  are,"  and  he  threw  a 
score  of  cards  upon  the  table,  which  were  immediately 
seized  by  the  two  young  men,  who  forthwith  became 
excessively  indignant  at  the  appearance  of  certain 
names  thereon.  But  all  the  reply  they  could  obtain 
from  the  gentleman  in  black  was,  "Precisely  so;"  after 
repeating  which  some  half  dozen  times,  he  politely 
took  leave,  kicked  his  black  bag  through  the  window, 
and  jumped  after  it  into  the  garden. 

Now,  as  to  the  narpes  of  the  ladies  in  question,  we 


44  THEGENTLEMANINELACK. 

can  scarcely  venture  to  give  an  opinion,  because  the 
transaction  occurred  about  the  time  of  the  Revolution, 
when  divers,  even  of  the  fair  sex,  did  enact  certain 
parts  which  might  lead  one  to  suspect  that  they  really 
had  permitted  the  occasional  visits  of  the  gentleman  in 
black.  Otherwise  we  should  say  that  the  whole  were 
grossly  slandered,  inasmuch  as  it  hath  come  to  our 
knowledge,  that  the  aforesaid  personage  and  his  friends 
do  not  scruple  to  traduce  and  speak  familiarly  of  ladies, 
of  whom  they  know  little  or  nothing. 

Our  own  rule,  and  that  which  we  should  recommend 
to  all  our  readers,  is  never  to  give  the  smallest  degree 
of  credit  to  the  inuendos  of  such  fellows.  We  utterly 
disbelieve  and  despise  all  their  assertions,  in  conse- 
quence of  our  conviction  that  the  degraded  being,  who 
could  be  guilty  of  the  meanness  of  boasting  of  a  lady's 
favour,  would  not  hesitate  at  inventing  lies.  Assuredly 
such  men  have  been  too  much  in  company  with  the 
gentleman  in  black;  and  we  would  rather  believe  them 
capable  of  the  most  abominable  falsehoods,  than  be  in- 
duced by  their  asseverations^  to  doubt  even  for  a  mo- 
ment, the  propriety  of  any  lady's  conduct. 

We  are  sorry  to  say  that  our  two  heroes  had  not 
yet  attained  the  same  way  of  thinking.  They  read 
and  re-read  the  cards  which  the  dark  old  rake  had  left 
upon  the  table;  and  the  consequence  was,  that,  for 
some  months  they  remained  in  Paris,  and  sought  for, 
and  found  but  too  easily,  introductions  to  his  particular 
friends,  then  residing  in  that  city. 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  45 

Their  first  exploils  on  the  day  in  question  were  per- 
formed, under  the  influence  of  wine,  at  the  Palais 
Royal,  where  they,  apparently  by  accident,  again  en- 
countered the  gentleman  in  black,  who  politely  invited 
them  to  attend  the  meeting  of  a  political  club,  at 
which  he  was  to  preside  that  evening:  but  he  did  not 
press  them,  being  well  aware  how  extremely  improba- 
ble it  was  that  men  who  were  in  pursuit  of  pleasure, 
and  who  had  unbounded  wealth  at  their  command, 
would  be  induced  to  enter  into  any  engagements  likely 
to  expose  them  to  imprisonment  and  more  fatal  conse- 
quences. He  left  them,  therefore,  to  their  own  desires, 
and  was,  by  no  means,  displeased  with  the  result. 
But  it  is  no  part  of  our  intended  plan  to  enter  into  a 
minute  detail  of  scenes  particularly  agreeable  to  him: 
and,  indeed,  if  we  were  disposed  so  to  employ  our  pen, 
it  would  be  a  work  of  supererogation,  seeing  that  they 
are  already  much  too  well  known. 

When  our  heroes  left  Louis's  hotel,  in  the  Rue  de 
L'Universite,  the  room  in  which  they  had  held  their 
symposium  with  their  sable  acquaintance  was  imme- 
diately filled  by  divers  well-dressed  lacqueys,  who  ex- 
pressed no  small  surprise  at  the  number  of  empty  bot- 
tles which  were  scattered,  in  all  directions,  about  the 
floor.  They  had  not  seen  the  third,  and  probably  the 
greatest  drinker  of  the  party;  and  Louis's  personal  va- 
let declared  that  his  master  could  not  possibly  take 
more  than  one  bottle.  They,  of  course,  came  to  a 
conclusion  that  the  remaining  three  dozen  and  upward 


4G  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

must  have  been  consumed  by  the  Englishman.  All 
were  struck  with  astonishment  except  an  old  gascon, 
who  coolly  took  up  a  snutF-box  (left,  as  if  by  accident, 
by  the  gentleman  in  black)  and  remarked,  as  he  gave 
it  the  preparatory  tap,  "Ohl  three  dozen  is  nothing 
for  an  Englishman!  He  will  take  about  the  same 
quantity  again  after  dinner!  and  then  begin  drinking 
brandy  and  water."  He  might  have  said  more,  but 
was  interrupted  by  a  violent  fit  of  sneezing,  at  the  end 
of  which  he  felt  an  irresistible  propensity  to  see  if  there 
was  any  wine  left  upon  the  table.  The  Vesuvian 
snuff-box  was  handed  round,  and  produced  precisely 
the  same  effects  on  all  the  party;  and  in  less  time  than 
the  circumstance  takes  in  relating,  they  were  seated 
round  the  table,  with  a  determination  of  not  being  out- 
done by  an  Englishman.  The  result  was  precisely  as 
the  gentleman  in  black  intended,  when  he  thought 
proper  to  leave  his  black  Paris  rappee  and  hellebore. 
They  settled  the  affairs  of  the  nation  most  luxuriously 
among  themselves  that  evening,  and  were  all  turned 
adrift  next  morning,  by  their  master,  in  a  very  fit 
stale  to  form  members  of  the  political  club  before  men- 
tioned, at  which  the  gentleman  of  the  black-edged  pa- 
pers frequently  presided. 

We  have  related  this  trivial  occurrence,  because  it 
may,  probably,  in  some  degree,  account  for  the  gene- 
ral mistake  into  which  the  French  formerly  fell,  rela- 
tive to  the  immense  capacity  of  our  wine-bibbing 
countrymen.     We  have  little  doubt  that,  in  most  cases, 


THEGENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  47 

wherein  enormous  quantities  appeared  to  have  been 
consumed  by  one  or  two  individuals,  the  gentleman  in 
black  was  at  their  elbow,  with  his  black  rappee  and 
hellebore,  and  probably  some  of  his  long  tales  and 
abominable  misrepresentations  of  the  fair  sex. 


CHAPTER  III. 

Had  it  been  our  lot  to  have  related  the  adventures 
of  our  heroes  about  the  time  of  their  occurrence,  we 
should  willingly  have  traced  their  progress,  step  by 
step,  among  the  lions  of  Paris,  and  throughout  their 
subsequent  continental  tour:  but  nozv,  the  Louvre,  the 
Jura,  the  Alps,  Venice,  the  Vatican,  and  all  the  long 
list  of  et  ceteras,  are  "familiar  in  our  ears  as  household 
words;"  and  the  reader  would  "skip"  through  the 
pages  containing  descriptions  thereof,  as  rapidly  as  the 
modern  traveller  whirls  past,  in,  or  over  the  realities. 

It  was  with  some  difficulty  that  Charles  succeeded 
in  persuading  Louis  to  accompany  him:  for  the  French- 
man is  not,  like  the  Englishman,  naturally,  a  travel- 
ling animal.  Though  he  has  too  much  politeness  to 
make  the  affirmation,  he  is,  generally,  much  of  the 
same  way  of  thinking  as  the  old  Greeks  and  Romans, 
who  considered  all  nations  but  their  own  to  be  bar- 
barians. 

Louis's  consent  was  faintly  given  to  the  plan  of  mi- 
gration; and  some  weeks  had  been  spent  in  delay,  after 
their  route  was  arranged,  when  the  two  friends  were 
sitting  together  one  morning  at  Charley's  Hotel;  and  a 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  49 

servant  entered  to  announce  a  Mons.  Bourreau,  who 
immediately,  and  without  ceremony,  entered  the  room. 

There  was  a  coarseness  and  abrupt  famiharity  about 
this  person,  which,  added  to  his  vulgar  appearance, 
excessively  annoyed  the  two  young  men  of  pleasure. 
Charles  politely  inquired  to  what  cause  he  might  attri- 
bute the  honour  of  such  a  visit. 

"It  is  no  honour,"  replied  Bourreau;  and  Charles 
bowed  in  acquiescence.  *'My  visit,"  continued  the 
other,  "is,  perhaps,  correctly  speaking,  to  Mons.  De- 
songes." 

"To  me!"  exclaimed  Louis,  "what  the  devil  can  you 
want  with  me?  some  unpaid  bill,  I  suppose;  you  should 
have  appHed  to  my  cook,  or  butler,  or  coachman,  or 
whoever  ordered  the  things  of  you.  I  always  give 
them  money  for  such  purposes  at  discretion." 

"Sir!"  replied  the  advocate  of  liberty  and  equality, 
for  such  he  was,  notwithstanding  his  indignant  feeling 
at  being  mistaken  for  a  tradesman,  "I  beg  you  to  un- 
derstand. Sir,  that  I  did  not  come  here  to  be  insulted." 

"Pshaw!"  said  Louis,  testily,  "your  business?' 

The  advocate  of  liberty  and  equality  hereupon  be- 
gan a  speech,  which  had  evidently  been  composed  for 
the  occasion,  and  was  much  too  prolix  for  repetition 
here.  He  spake  of  the  heavy  burdens  borne  by  the 
people,  the  luxury  and  dissipation  of  the  court  and  the 
aristocracy,  of  the  unjust  abuse  of  the  rights  of  man, 
which  were  natural,  physical  and  unalienable;  "the 
law's  delay,  the  insolence  of  office,"  and  "all  the  vari- 


50  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

ous  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to;"  the  whole  of  which  he  at- 
tributed to  improper  measures  of  government;  and,  at 
length  concluded  with  a  piece  of  information,  which 
effectually  roused  Louis  from  the  ennui  into  which  he 
was,  in  spite  of  his  natural  politesse,  gradually  sinking. 

*^Your  very  extraordinary  expenditure,  Monsieur," 
said  Bourreau,  "has  attracted  notice.  This,  Sir,  is  the 
age  of  reason — the  people  see  with  the  eyes  of  reason; 
we  judge  and  pronounce  sentence  on  rational  principles. 
Your  footsteps  have  been  traced  latterly.  You  inva- 
riably lose  at  the  gambling  houses;  you  are  extrava- 
gant everywhere,  and  in  debt  nowhere;  you  have  no 
landed  estates,  nor  can  we  learn  that  you  have  any 
monies  at  interest.  What  remains  then  but  to  come 
to  the  conclusion  that  you  are  one  of  the  pensioners, 
which,  like  locusts,  are  feeding  upon  the  vitals  of  the 
public?" 

''Capital!"  exclaimed  Charles  Maxwell,  "certainly! 
he  is  a  sinecurist.  Excellent!  and  me.  Monsieur?  what 
do  you  think  of  me?  I  conclude  that,  having  been  so 
much  with  my  friend,  I  must  likewise  have  subjected 
myself  to  your  surveillance?" 

''Excuse  me.  Monsieur  Anglais,"  replied  Bourreau, 
"we  see  only  with  the  eye  of  reason;  and  your  conduct, 
as  well  as  that  of  many  of  your  countrymen,  cannot  be 
accounted  for  upon  any  rational  principles  whatever." 

During  the  last  two  minutes  Louis  had  thought  more, 
than  at  any  one  period  since  we  had  the  pleasure  of 
introducing  him  to  the  reader,  when  he  was  sitting,  in 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  51 

his  solitary,  ill-furnished  room,  in  bodily  fear  of  a  tailor. 
He  now  reflected  on  the  immense  sums  which  he  had 
expended,  and  in  how  unworthy  a  manner;  and  some- 
thing like  repentance  crossed  his  mind  at  the  miserable 
and  contemptible  result.  He  had  attracted  the  notice 
of  such  wretches  as  Bourreau  and  his  associates!  with 
such  resources  what  might  he  not  have  achieved?  His 
country;  the  royal  family;  the  government;  all — all 
were  in  difticulties,  perhaps  in  a  perilous  situation!  Thus 
thought  Louis:  and  immediately  there  opened  to  his 
mind,  a  brilliant  glimpse  of  what  he  might  yet  perform; 
and  good  resolutions  for  the  future,  poured  in  upon  him 
in  a  manner  which  must  have  been  exceedingly  un- 
pleasant to  the  gentleman  in  black;  for,  on  the  instant, 
he  opened  the  door  and  made  his  appearance  with  black 
cloak,  coat,  waistcoat,  bag,  &c.,  &c.,  as  heretofore. 

After  bowing  politely  to  our  heroes,  he  addressed 
himself  to  the  advocate  of  liberty  and  equality. 

"Ah!  mon  cher  Bourreau!  This  is  an  agreeable  sur- 
prise! by  all  that  is  fuliginous,  I  am  delighted  to  meet 
you  this  morning!  Always  upon  the  alert  in  the  good 
cause!  eh?  stirring  betimes,  notwithstanding  the  fa- 
tigues of  last  night!  eh?  An  exquisitely  flaming  speech 
that  of  yours!  a  most  glorious  mystification!  "Thoughts 
that  breathe  and  words  that  burn!"  I  could  not  have 
done  the  thing  better  myself.  But,  entre  nous,  it  was 
excessively  hot,  so  many  people  crowded  together  in 
that  small  room;  absolutely  sulphureous — it  was  really 


52  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

almost  too  much  for  me.     But,  ''ca  ira!'^  we  shall  have 
little  occasion  to  hide  our  heads  much  longer." 

"Mais  doucement?  Monsieur  Le  President!"  exclaim- 
ed Bourreau,  and  he  whispered  that  our  heroes  were 
not  among  the  initiated. 

"Excuse  me,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  speak- 
ing out,  "these  two  gentlemen  are  my  particular 
friends." 

"Diable!"  exclaimed  Bourreau. 

"Precisely  so,"  said  his  associate,,  tapping  his  snuff 
box,  and  regaling  himself  from  its  blackguard  contents 
with  peculiar  zest. 

"Est  it  possible!"  continued  Bourreau,  with  unfeign- 
ed astonishment;"  and  yet  you  we^e  one  of  the  first  to 
recommend" 

"That  Monsieur's  hotel  should  be  ransacked,"  said 
the  gentleman  in  black.  "Precisely  so;  what  have  zee 
to  dp  with  private  friendships?  You  know  we  have 
solemnly  sworn  that  they  shall  not  interfere  with  the 
public  good;  and  I,  as  president,  am  willing  to  convince 
you  that  Pll  not  stick  at  trifles  for  the  furtherance  of 
our  great  cause.  Monsieur  Desonges,"  he  continued, 
addressing  himself  to  Louis,  "I  have  the  pleasure  to  in- 
form you  that  a  few  of  my  particular  friends  are  now 
at  your  hotel." 

"I  am  concerned  to  think  f»hat  I  was  not  at  home  to 
receive  them,"  replied  Louis. 

"It  is  impossible  that  they  can  be  there  yet,"  said 


^ 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  53 

Bourreau,  looking  at  his  watch,  "it  wants  a  full  hour 
to  the  preparatory  meeting." 

"Excuse  me,  my  dear  friend,"  observed  the  black 
.  president,  "for  differing  from  you  in  opinion;  but,  the 
fact  is,  that  I  accompanied  them  myself  as  far  as  the 
door.  I  seldom  go  farther  on  such  occasions.  When 
they  have  once  crossed  the  threshold  I  can  trust  them 
to  act  for  themselves." 

Monsieur  Bourreau  instantly  seized  his  hat,  pleaded 
a  most  important  engagement,  which  he  had  almost 
forgotten,  and  took  leave,  with  the  same  abruptness 
with  which  he  had  made  his  entre. 

Immediately  his  back  was  turned,  the  gentleman  in 
black  coolly  observed,  "That  fellow  came  with  the  in- 
tention of  frightening  you  out  of  some  money.  How- 
ever, he'll  be  in  time  for  the  scramble." 

"What  scramble?"  inquired  Louis. 

"At  your  hotel,"  was  the  reply.  "Those  fellows,  of 
whom  I  was  speaking,  are  now  hard  at  work,  drinking, 
and  breaking  up  your  furniture  most  charmingly,  and 
ransacking  every  corner,  in  hopes  to  find  the  proofs  of 
your  connection  with  the  court.  Bah!  what  makes 
you  seem  so  much  alarmed?  The  loss  of  a  house  can 
be  of  no  consequence  to  you." 

"The  devil  take  the  house,"  exclaimed  Louis. 

"Precisely  so,"  observed  the  gentleman  in  black; 
"that  would  be  quite  correct." 

.  "I  must  go  there  instantly,"  said  the  young  French- 
man, "or  those  friends  of  yours  will  get  possession  of 

E  2 


54f  THEGENTLEMANIN    BLACK. 

some — some  documents,,  which  I  would  not,  for  the 
world, — Maxwell,  my  dear  fellow!  order  out  one  of 
your  carriages  directly!" 

"As  you  please,"  quoth  the  dark  elderly  gentleman; . 
"however,  if  you  have  not  an  absolute  desire  to  figure 
away  a  la  lanteme^  I  should  recommend  you  to  drive 
in  a  contrary  direction." 

"Your  advice  may  be  very  prudent,"  repUed  Louis, 
"but  as  a  man  of  honour,  1  cannot  suffer  those — certain 
letters,  from  individuals  of  the  highest  respectability,  to 
fall  into  the  hands  of  the  canaille." 

"Pshawl"  observed  the  gentleman  with  the  black 
bag,  wherein  heimmediately  began  rummaging;  "pshaw! 
phoo!  bagatelles!  billet-doux!  mere  circulars!  I  know 
what  you  mean.  Hem!  ha — "  and  he  untied  the  black 
tape  which  bound  a  pretty  considerable  number  of 
notes  and  letters  together;  "ah — there — ^just  like  these." 
He  then  opened  about  half  a  score,  and  threw  them 
across  the  table.  "I  mean  to  give  them  all  to  a  book- 
seller whom  I  have  in  my  eye,  and  have  them  publish- 
ed;—I'm  sure  they'll  sell." 

"Why  this,"  cried  Louis,  "is  one  of  the  notes  which 
1  locked  up  this  morning  in  my  escrutoire,  from  the 

Comtesse !" 

"And  you  must  have  stolen  this  from  my  desk!"  ex- 
claimed Charles;  "it  is  impossible  that  I  should  be  mis- 
taken in  that  beautiful  hand-writing.  I'll  take  my 
oath" 


THE    GENTLEMAN    INBLACK.  55 

"Don't  do  that,"  said  the  dark  antique  lover,  *'look 
at  the  directions." 

"What  is  this?"  asked  Charles,  reading,  "M.  le  Due 

de ,  M.  le  Comte?"     "M.  le  Marquis;"  read  Louis, 

"M.  le  Baron,  Son  Altesse;  what  does  all  this  mean? 
Have  you  been  housebreaking  round  Paris  to  collect 
all  these,  or  are  you  really  capable  of  personating  so 
many  different  characters,  and  making  women  believe 
?" 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  "I 
hold  that  stratagems  are  fair  both  in  love  and  war. 
Indeed,  with  me,  the  two  sciences  arc  the  same,  since 
I  always  consider  women,  on  whom  I  cannot  make  an 
impression,  as  the  worst  and  most  powerful  of  my  ene- 
mies." 

*'And  those  with  whom  you  do  succeed,  seem,  me- 
thinks,  to  be  treated  in  a  strange  manner,"  said  Charles, 
indignantly.  "I  really  know  not  in  what  terms  to  ex- 
press my  opinion  of  your  conduct,  it  is  so  mean,  paltry, 
cowardly,  ungentlemanly,  unfeeling,  dishonourable, 
cruel " 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  with 
perfect  sang  froid;  "I  do  not  deny  it.  But  after  all,  1 
believe  that,  in  similar  cases,  my  plan  is  followed  by 
the  generality  of  mankind.  As  I  said  before,  love  is 
like  war.  Does  a  general,  merely  because  he  has 
taken  a  town,  sit  himself  down  and  reside  there?  Bah! 
but  you've  already  had  my  opinion  of  matrimony;  and, 


56  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

as  for  any  other  ties — bah!  they  are  preciously  ridicu- 
lous!    Love,  you  know, 

"At  sight  of  human  ties, 
Flutters  his  wings,  and,  in  a  moment,  flies." 

It  is  a  fact,  upon  my  honour!"  and  here,  as  though 
well  pleased  with  the  manner  in  which  he  had  acquit- 
ted himself,  he  had  recourse  to  his  Vesuvian  repository 
of  black  Paris  rappee  and  hellebore. 

He  was  not,  however,  even  by  his  favourite  topic  of 
speaking  against  the  fair  sex,  to  be  diverted  from  the 
main  purport  of  his  visit,  which  was  to  drive  the  two 
young  men  from  Paris.  He  was  determined  on  this 
point,  because  he  perceived,  in  Louis,  a  lurking  dispo- 
sition to  apply  the  means,  placed  at  his  disposal,  in  a 
way  which  would  be  excessively  unpleasant  to  his  feel- 
ings. He  therefore  recited  a  few  anecdotes  and  reso- 
solutions  of  the  then  embryo  revolutionists,  deputies, 
triumviri,  directeurs,  republicans,  friends  of  liberty, 
&c.  &c.,  which  were  well  calculated  to  shake  stronger 
nerves  than  were  possessed  by  either  of  his  hearers. 
The  estimation  in  which  Louis  had  held  his  billet- 
doux  was  much  diminished,  by  the  discovery  that  they 
were  not  so  unique  as  he  had  imagined;  and  he,  as  usual 
in  such  cases,  began  to  conceive  himself  excessively 
ill-used  by  the  inditers.  There  was,  however,  a  lin- 
gering inclination  within  him,  a  something  which 
whispered  him,  not  to  leave  Paris.     IJe  could  not  ex- 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  57 

actly  account  for  it;  for  he  had  not  seen  the  fair  Emi- 
lie,  nor  her  most  perpendicular  father,  the  Comte  de 
Tien  a  la  Cour,  for  some  months. 

But  the  gentleman  in  black  had  a  certain  misgiving, 
relative  to  the  exact  state  of  his  mind;  and,  therefore, 
left  him  not  until  he  had  completely  bewildered  his 
brain  in  the  mazes  and  mysteries  of  politics,  and  open- 
ed to  his  view  a  state  of  things  amply  sufficient  to 
make  any  man,  of  a  quiet  and  pleasure-loving  disposi- 
tion, desire  to  be  "upon  the  move"  from  the  scene  of 
action. 

We  have  been  told  that  this  was  the  only  instance 
in  which  the  gentleman  in  black  was  ever  known  to 
take  an  active  part  in  persuading  a  young  man  of 
fashion  and  fortune  to  quit  Paris. 

To  men  provided  with  such  black  morocco  pocket- 
books,  such  long  black  elastic  silk  purses,  such  black 
snufT-boxes,  and  such  black  cut  glass  bottles  in  such  ' 
black  ebony  cases,  little  preparation  was  necessary  for 
a  journey;  therefore,  our  heroes  made  up  their  minds 
to  dine  quietly  at  home,  at  Charley's  Hotel;  then  to 
take  a  farewell  lounge  round  the  Palais  Royal,  and  to 
depart  on  the  following  morning. 

In  the  meanwhile,  the  gentleman  in  black,  ever  upon 
the  alert  to  carry  his  schemes  into  effect,  had  propa- 
gated a  report  among  the  aristocracy  that  Monsieur 
Desonges,  whose  house  had  been  attacked  by  the  mob 
that  morning,  had  previously  been  handsomely  remu- 
nerated.    That  he  was,  in  fact,  one  of  the  secret  abet- 


58  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

tors  of  the  disaffected;  that  this  house  was  purposely 
furnished  in  a  nnost  extravagant  nianner;  that  his  cel- 
lars were  stocked  with  an  immense  quantity  of  the 
most  expensive  wines,  and.  in  short,  that  the  whole  af- 
fair was  "got  up"  for  the  purpose  of  inflaming  the 
minds  of  the  canaille  by  a  taste  of  plunder,  and  lead- 
ing them  to  imagine  that  the  whole  of  the  aristocracy 
were  living  in  a  state  of  similar  luxury  and  extrava- 
gance, while  they  themselves  were  suffering  under  the 
pressure  of  poverty  and  want. 

Some  indeed  have  avowed  that  this  report  was  not 
merely  a  feint,  to  answer  the  purposes  of  the  hour;  but 
that  the  president  in  black,  did  really  excite  the  popu- 
lace to  attack  Louis's  hotel,  with  the  intention  of  pro- 
ducing such  an  impression  on  their  minds.  Be  that  as 
it  may,  Louis  had  scarcely  entered  the  cafe,  which  he 
was  wont  to  patronize,  than  he  was  immediately  the 
object  of  general  attention.  Expressions  of  condolence, 
upon  the  horrible  transaction  of  the  morning,  poured 
in,  from  various  quarters;  and,  it  must  be  confessed 
that  the  light  manner  in  which  the  owner  of  so  splen- 
did a  hotel  treated  his  loss,  tended,  not  a  little,  to  con- 
firm the  suspicion  that  he  had  been  indemnified. 

Little  knots  of  politicians  were,  consequently,  gather- 
ed together  at  all  the  tables:  there  was  much  whisper- 
ing and  shrugging  of  shoulders;  and  the  subject  was 
discussed  with  occasio"nal  solemnity,  and  a  vehemence 
certainly  quite  adequate  to  its  importance. 

In  the  meanwhile,  the  two  friends  moved  on,  nothing 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  59 

doubting, — looked  in  at  the  theatres — nodded  to  some 
half  dozen  friends,  and  displayed  a  perfect  ease  in  their 
manners,  which,  under  existing  circumstances,  appear- 
ed quite  marvellous.  It  was  noticed,  however,  that 
they  did  not  enter  certain  privileged  boxes,  occupied 
by  well  known  leaders  of  fashion  and  rank,  with  whom, 
particularly  some  of  the  ladies  therein,  they  were  under- 
stood to  be  on  good  terms.  This  circumstance  was 
afterwards  spoken  of  as  a  proof  of  Louis's  defection 
from  the  aristocratics,  by  one  party;  and,  by  those  on 
the  other  side  of  the  question,  it  was  cited  as  a  flagrant 
instance  of  aristocratic  pride  and  ingratitude,  that,  on 
the  very  day  that  a  young  man  was  deprived  of  the 
means  of  continuing  a  monstrous  expenditure  for  their 
gratification,  he  was  "cut"  by  the  people  about  the 
court.  The  Englishman  was,  of  course,  looked  upon 
with  an  eye  of  jealousy  by  politicians  of  all  descrip- 
tions. 

Though  perfectly  unconscious  of  the  great  sensation 
which  they  created,  the  two  friends  could  not  but  per- 
ceive that,  occasionally,  an  evil  eye  was  upon  them; 
and  they  were  about  to  go  home,  to  prepare,  by  rest, 
for  the  fatigues  of  the  morrow,  when  Louis  was  accost- 
ed by  a  friend  of  his  former  humbler  fortunes,  whom 
he  had  not  seen  for  many  months.  On  his  lips  was 
condolence  for  the  morning's  disaster;  and  there  seemed, 
to  Louis,  a  much  deeper  feeling  in  his  tone  than  in  any 
other  of  the  numerous  regrets  which  had  met  his  ear. 

"Poor  fellow,"  said  he,  whispering  to  Charles.     '*lt 


QQ  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

is  impossible  to  tell  when  we  may  meet  again.  I  know 
he  is  badly  off;  but  I  cannot  offend  him  by  offering  him 
money;  so,  I'll  just  go  and  lose  a  few  louis  with  him." 
When  a  man  has  a  desire  to  throw  away  a  little  money, 
he  can  generally  effect  the  purpose  without  much  dif- 
ficulty; and  therefore  the  business  was  soon  settled: 
but,  unfortunately,  the  transaction  took  place  in  the 
Palais  Royal,  and  was  witnessed  by  divers  persons, 
whose  business  it  was,  or  who  had  made  it  their  busi- 
ness, to  watch  Louis's  conduct;  and  the  style  in  which 
he  played,  and  the  glee  with  which  he  lost,  were  con- 
clusive evidences  of  the  report  in  circulation  against 
him. 

The  room  in  which  they  sat  was,  by  this  time,  much 
thinned  of  company — there  were  but  one  or  two  strag- 
glers, at  odd  corners.  Charles  threw  a  louis  to  the  an- 
cient "garcon,"  and  the  friends  were  about  to  depart, 
when  an  herculean  member  of  the  gen-d'armerie  en- 
tered the  room  and  formally  arrested  Louis  Desonges 
in  the  name  of  the  king. 

*'0n  what  charge?"  exclaimed  the  prisoner. 

**That  is  no  affair  of  mine,"  said  the  soldier,  "I  am 
only  performing  my  duty." 

"I'll  be  his  bail,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  whom 
nobody  had  seen  before,  but  who  now  stepped  forward 
as  to  the  rescue. 

"Monsieur  is  a  state  prisoner,"  observed  the  gen- 
d'arme,  with  a  supercilious  air. 

"Never  mind  him,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  to 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  61 

Louis:  and  he  forthwith  threw  off  his  black  Geneva 
cloak  and  black  coat,  and  displayed,  to  the  wondering 
optics  of  the  party,  a  curiously  worked  black  cambric 
shirt  which  he  wore  beneath.  Then  placing  himself 
in  an  attitude,  which  would  have  done  honour  to  a 
first  rate  English  bruiser,  he  calmly  told  the  soldier  to 
"come  on." 

"Who  the  devil  are  you,  old  boy?"  asked  the  gen- 
d'arme,  somewhat  diverted  at  the  drollery  of  his  an- 
tagonist's appearance,  and  mistaking  him  for  a  drunken 
bourgeois. 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  cambric. 

"You  had  better  go  home  and  look  after  your  family," 
added  the  soldier. 

"Precisely  so,"  was  the  answer,  "that  is  precisely 
what  I  mean  to  do." 

"Guillaume!"  said  the  man  in  office  to  one  of  his 
comrffdes  who  stood  at  the  door,  "turn  out  this  old 
drunkard." 

"Oui,  mon  corporal,"  replied  Guillaume,  advancing 
solemnly  and  lowering  his  musket,  as  if  to  sweep  away 
the  aforesaid  black-shirted  gentleman,  as  a  fly  may  be 
brushed  from  the  table:  but,  to  Guillaume's  utter  dis- 
may, the  said  dark  gentleman  gave  the  said  musket  a 
kick,  which  sent  it  up  to  the  ceiling,  where  it  hung 
suspended  by  the  bayonet. 

"Diable!"  exclaimed  poor  Guillaume. 

"Precisely  so,"  repeated  the  gentleman  of  the  black 
cambric,  rubbing  his  hands,  and  then  resuming  his 


62  THEQENTLEMANINBLACK. 

attitude  of  defence,  "Why  don't  you  come  on,  you 
cowardsl" 

"Cowards!"  exclaimed  the  corporal,  "I'll  soon  teach 
you,  you  old  coquin!"  and  he  rushed  forward  to  the 
attack. 

"One,  two,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  as  he 
planted  two  blows,  well  known  among  men  of  "science" 
by  those  names,  and  down  fell  the  corporal.  **One, 
two,  again,"  added  the  black  bruiser,  and  poor  Guil- 
laume  measured  his  length  upon  the  floor.  "I'm  the 
boy  for  darkening  their  daylights,"  cried  the  dingy 
elderly  gentleman,  in  high  glee. 

"Au  secours!"  roared  the  two  prostrate  men  of  war; 
and  instantly  a  great  noise  of  trampling  was  heard  up- 
on the  staircase,  immediately  after  which  a  dozen  of 
gen-d'armerie  made  their  appearance.  The  sight  of 
"a  mill,"  and  the  admirable  science  displayed  by  his 
dingy  friend,  recalled  old  times  to  Charles's  remem- 
brance, and  he  had,  as  if  by  instinct,  thrown  off  his 
coat.  Louis  followed  his  example,  though  he  knew 
not  exactly  for  what  purpose:  but  he  was  one  of  the 
million  who  think  it  right  to  imitate  those  around 
them. 

The  soldiers  drew  up  like  brave  men  prepared  to 
encounter  an  enemy;  but  there  was  no  enemy  to  fight. 
It  was,  to  them,  a  scene  most  strange  and  unaccounta- 
ble, for  they  could  perceive  nothing  formidable  in  the 
appearance  of  two  young  men  unarmed  and  without 
coats,  and  a  short,  elderly  gentleman,  in  a  black  shirt, 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  63 

whom  they,  for  soldiers  are  wofully  ignorant  in  such 
matters,  mistook  for  a  clergyman.  Their  comrades 
had  by  this  time  got  up,  and  were  rubbing  their  eyes, 
which  were,  however,  very  effectually  obscured.  More 
soldiers  were  now  heard  on  the  ascent,  for  the  alarm 
had  gone  round  with  true  military  rapidity. 

"Milling  won't  do  now,"  whispered  the  gentleman  in 
black  to  Charles,  "there  are  too  many  of  them;  leave 
all  to  me  and  tell  Desonges  to  hold  his  tongue." 

An  officer  now  stepped  forward,  and  asked  the  two 
eye-rubbers  what  was  the  meaning  of  the  uproar. 

"It  is  that  infernal  old  rascal  in  black,"  replied  the 
corporal. 

"Precisely  so,"  said  the  gentleman  of  the  cambric. 

'^That's  him!"  cried  Guillaume,  "that's  him  that 
kicked  my  musket  up  into  the  ceiling."  And  imme- 
diately he  recommenced  rubbing  and  exclaiming,  "oh! 
my  eyes!" 

The  officer  looked  up,  and  seeing  the  musket  sus- 
pended by  the  bayonet  from  the  roof,  into  which,  it 
seems  to  have  penetrated  to  some  depth,  turned  to  the 
gentleman  in  black  for  an  explanation. 

"Precisely  so,"  was  the  reply,  I  confess  it.  I  was 
wrong:  but  I  deliver  myself  up  to  answer  for  my  im- 
proper conduct." 

"That's  not  him!"  roared  the  blind  corporal. 

"What  do  you  mean?"  asked  the  officer,  "you  said 
this  moment  it  was  him." 


64  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

"No,  no,  not  the  prisoner!  the  prisoner  is  him  in  the 
pompadour  coat,"  cried  the  corporal. 

"They  have  none  of  them  any  coats,"  said  the 
officer.  N 

"Sir,"  resumed  the  gentleman  in  black  muslin,  with 
an  ease  and  elegance  of  manner,  which  failed  not  in  its 
effect  upon  the  young  military  Parisian,  and  at  the 
same  time,  imitating  so  closely  the  tone  of  Louis,  as  to 
startle  the  real  owner  of  the  voice,  "Sir,  th6  poor  cor- 
poral seems  to  have  been  labouring  for  some  time  under 
a  defect  of  vision,  and  the  crisis  has  come  suddenly  upon 
him.  In  the  matter  of  the  coat,  however,  I  must 
say-" 

"That's  him!"  shouted  the  corporal,  I'll  swear  to 
him." 

"Let  me  beg,  Mons.  le  capitaine,"  continued  the 
gentleman  in  the  black  sleeves,  "that  you  will  not  suf- 
fer any  swearing  in  my  presence!  but,  as  I  was  ob- 
serving, here  is  my  coat,"  and  he  took  it  from  a  chair, 
and  held  it  up  toward  the  chandelier,  "you  may  per- 
ceive it  is  a  sort  of  a — pompadour — or  a  what  d'ye 
call  it  de  la  reine — or — a  something  else  from  the 
Dauphin.  Bah!  I  am  no  tailor,  I  don't  understand 
such  matters." 

"By  all  that's  courtly,"  said  the  officer,  it  is  a  most 
exquisite  cloth,  and  made  in  a  style  of  infinite  and  in- 
imitable workmanship.  Will  you  favour  me  with  your 
artist's  address?  really,  upon  my  honour!  I  never! — but, 
as  to  the  colour — I  really  cannot  say  exactly  that  I 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  65 

know  what  term  to  give  it;  it  is  a  kind  of  a  sort  of  a 
— no — not  exactly  that — but,  apropos,  I  believe  you 
are  my  prisoner,  now  I  think  of  it?" 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  the  gentleman  usually  in  black; 
"it  is  not  worth  while  to  keep  these  men  waiting.  As 
for  the  charge  against  me — let  it  come — but  gentle- 
men of  your  honourable  profession,  must,  I  know,  do 
their  duty.     We  may  as  well,  therefore,  adjourn." 

"Apropos,  corporal,  you  have  the  letter  about  you?" 
asked  the  officer.  The  poor  fellow  fumbled  and  found 
it,  and  respectfully  presented  it  to  his  superior,  who 
glanced  over  it,  and  then  continued  speaking.     "Your 


"Louis  Desonges,"  said  the  gentleman  of  the  curious- 
ly cut  coat. 

"Let  me  see,"  resumed  the  officer;  and  then  he  read 
to  himself  a  description  of  Louis's  person  and  stature, 
which,  although  they  accorded  as  little  as  might  be, 
appeared  perfectly  correct  in  his  eye,  as  indicating  the 
very  gentlemanly,  though  somewhat  dark,  personage 
before  him. 

When  the  scrutiny  was  over,  the  gentleman  in  the 
questionable  pompadour  coat  took  the  officer's  arm 
with  the  most  perfect  coolness,  and  remarked,  "You'll 
find  my  tailor  a  devilish  good  fellow — never  in  a  hurry 
for  his  money." 

"Capital!"  exclaimed  the  young  officer,  "my  dear 
Sir,  I'm  greatly  obliged — but — just  turn  round,  now 
it's  on — by  St.  Louis!  it  fits  like  a  glove!  What  do  you 

F  2 


66  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

call  long  credit?  But,  I  beg  your  pardon,  I  keep  you 
waiting — it  is  my  duty  now  to  wait  upon  you." 

"Pardon  me,  my  dear  Sir,"  said  the  gentleman  of  the 
black  cambric  and  pompadour,  "it  is  my  duty  to  wait 
upon  you — I  entreat  you — indeed  you  give  me  pain — • 
consider,  I  am  your  prisoner." 

"Well,  then,  1  am  your  guardian,"  was  the  reply; 
"ha!  ha!  well,  and  so  he — serjeant!  set  us  a  going,  will 
you — so  he  gives  devilish  long  credit,  does  he?" 

"Vou  may  say  that!"  answered  the  gentleman  of  the 
black  bag:  and,  with  such  sort  of  conversation,  the 
military  and  the  prisoner  left  our  heroes,  as  though 
they  were  persons  utterly  beneath  their  attention. 

"It  is,  by  no  means,  an  unpleasant  thing  to  be  taken 
to  the  Bastile  by  proxy,"  observed  Louis. 

"He's  a  capital  old  fellow!"  said  Charles,  "with  his 
*one,  two' — did  you  observe  his  guard?" 

It  was  a  blackguard  style  of  doing  the  thing,  after 
all,"  added  Louisj  "I  prefer  the  rapier:"  and  then  they, 
in  their  way  home,  entered  upon  a  discussion  relative 
to  national  habits  and  prejudices,  respecting  which 
they  argued  long,  and  with  the  usual  result,  namely, 
that  each  became  more  firmly  established  in  his  own 
opinion. 

In  the  morning  an  officer  of  the  Bastile,  who  knew 
Louis's  person  well,  and  whose  duty  it  was  to  wait 
upon  him  in  his  confinement,  was  much  astonished  to 
find  his  place  occupied  by  the  gentleman  in  black,  who 
seemed  in  high  glee,  and  gayly  addressed  his  visiter. 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  67 

with  whom  it  seemed  he  had  formerly  been  intimate. 
The  jailer,  however,  did  not  now  feel  at  all  disposed  to 
acknowledge  the  acquaintance;  and  the  dark  gentle- 
man was  immediately  brought  forth  from  his  dark  cell, 
and  confronted  with  the  corporal  and  Guillaume,  who 
had,  by  this  time,  recovered  the  use  of  their  eyes.  An 
eclaircissement  consequently  took  place,  and  the  young 
officer  made  ten  thousand  apologies  for  the  error  into 
which  he  had  been  led  by  the  folly  of  his  men. 

The  gentleman  in  black  vehemently  entreated  him 
not  to  give  himself  a  moment's  uneasiness;  and  assured 
him  that  he  could  not  but  deem  the  occurrence  most 
fortunate,  which  had  introduced  him  to  a  young  officer 
of  such  bravery,  such  courtly  manners,  and  such  ex- 
quisite taste.  A  few  compliments  were  then  ex- 
changed between  the  two  new  acquaintances,  and 
(after  the  gentleman  in  black  had  given  a  handful  of 
louis  to  the  corporal  and  Guillaume,  to  purchase  oint- 
ment for  their  black  eyes)  they  drove  off  together  to 
the  tailor's,  where  the  hopeful  young  military  exquisite 
"opened  an  account"  in  a  manner  extremely  gratifying 
to  his  companion. 

"The  fellow  gives  long  credit,  you  say?"- observed 
the  officer  carelessly,  as  he  buttoned  his  coat,  and  they 
were  leaving  the  artist's  "magasin." 
,      "Devilish  long,"  replied  the  other. 

"Capital!  I  hate  to  be  pestered  for  payment  by  these 
vulgar  fellows.     It's  excessively  annoying." 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  his  dark  acquaintance;  "but 


QQ  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

set  your  heart  at  ease.  I'll  mystify  the  fellow.  I'll 
tell  him  that  your  custom  will  make  his  fortune,  for 
that  nothing  can  prevent  your  rapid  rise  in  the  service, 
and  that  you  must,  in  a  very  few  years,  be  a  general 
officer,  at  least.  And,  indeed,  my  dear  friend,  there  is 
no  impropriety  in  my  making  such  a  representation: 
for,  really,  with  your  appearance,  your  figure,  man- 
ners, taste,  and  abilities" 

"Nay,  nay,  my  dear  Monsieur!"  exclaimed  the  young 
Parisian,  *'you  are  too  partial!" 

"Not  a  whit,"  said  the  insinuating  flatterer.  "I 
eotdd  tell  you  what  a  certain  beautiful  young  Comtesse 
— but,  mum — apropos,  have  you  breakfasted?" 

"Not  yet,"  was  the  reply. 

"Allons  done,  exclaimed  the  other,  "a  la  fourchette, 
toujours,  that's  my  way;"  and  they  went  into  a  re- 
staurateur together. 

From  thence,  after  a  couple  of  hours,  the  gentleman 
in  black  came  forth  alone,  muttering  to  himself,  "Hem! 
at  billiards  with  a  chevalier  d'industrie — beheves  him- 
self the  handsomest  fellow  in  Paris — fancies  all  the 
ladies  in  love  with  him — long  tailor's  bill — good — ex- 
quisitely dingy!"  and,  snuffing  up  a  huge  pinch  of  black 
Paris  rappee  and  hellebore,  he  walked  away. 

In  the  meanwhile  our  two  heroes  were  "en  route," 
and  had  left  Paris  many  leagues  in  the  rear. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

We  are  now  about  to  ask  the  reader  to  repeat  an 
action  which,  in  all  probability,  he  will  have  commit- 
ted several  times,  without  any  hint  from  us.  We 
earnestly  request  him,  after  reading  a  few  more  lines, 
to  throw  aside  our  pages,  and  to  employ  himself  awhile 
in  fancying  himself  possessed  of  such  a  black  morocco 
pocket  book,  long  black  elastic  steel  purse  and  etceteras, 
as  appertained  to  each  of  our  two  heroes.'  Imagina- 
tion, we  opine,  if  its  wings  be  allowed  full  play,  will 
lead  him  a  strange  dance.  Such  a  dance,  indeed,  if 
the  truth  were  to  be  confessed,  as  would  be  scarcely 
seemly  if  taken  in  reality.  Should  the  eye  of  beauty 
be  cast  on  this  page,  we  beg  it  to  be  understood  that 
the  last  sentence  is  not  intended  to  apply  to  the  fair. 

We  ?iow  suppose  this  task  to  be  executed:  and,  if  it 
be  done  fairly,  and  honestly,  and  without  any  mental 
reservation,  the  reader  will  not  be  surprised  to  hear 
that  Charles  Maxwell  and  Louis  Desonges  committed 
many  egregious  acts  during  their  ramblings,  for  three 
years,  upon  the  continent.  The  gentleman  in  black 
appears  to  have  been  perfectly  satisfied  with  their  pro- 
ceedings: at  all  events  he  deemed  his  personal  appear- 


70  THE   GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

ance  before  them  unnecessary;  and  it  is  said,  that, 
having  much  business  in  hand  at  that  period  in  Paris, 
he  established  his  head  quarters  in  the  Palais  Royal, 
and  was  to  be  seen,  every  hour  of  the  day  and  night, 
at  some  one  of  the  various  cafes  therein,  or  in  the 
neighbourhood.  His  society  seems  likewise  to  have 
been  much  sought  after;  and  the  dark  old  gentleman 
appeared  in  high  glee,  and  entered  into  the  spirit  of  all 
that  was  going  on  around  him. 

The  young  men,  had,  in  the  meanwhile,  seen  all 
that  was  worth  seeing,  and  many  things  which  were 
not  worth  seeing,  and  many  more  which  it  might  have 
been  better  if  they  had  not  seen.  Exhaustless  purses 
bring  endless  wants;  and  they  became  patrons  of  the 
arts,  and  amateurs,  cognoscenti,  &c.  &c.  in  music,  paint- 
ing, sculpture,  engraving,  Slc.  &c.:  were,  consequently, 
initiated  into,  arid  made  fellows  and  members  of  vari- 
ous societies,  instituted  for  various  purposes,  but  all 
'^^rofessing  the  most  disinterested  motives,  and  aiming 
only  at  the  public  good.  They  sojourned  awhile  in 
Switzerland,  talking  and  dreaming  of  Jean  Jaques 
Rousseau.  Then  they  passed  into  Italy,  and  saw  Rome 
and  the  Pope,  and  talked  of  antiques  and  virtu,  and 
picked  up  divers  set  terms  relative  to  painting,  of  the 
meaning  of  which  they  had  some  indistinct  oonception. 
Sicily  and  Greece  were  visited  because  it  was  plea- 
sant to  be  able  to  say  that  they  had  been  to  those 
countries — and  then  they  bent  their  way  howeward 
through  the  Austrian  territories,  and  tarried  awhile  at 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  71 

the  sundry  mighty  little  courts  which  were  afterwards 
conglomerated  by  Napoleon  into  "The  Confederation 
of  the  Rhine."  Among  these,  each  of  our  heroes  lived 
**en  prince,"  and  by  their  profuse  expenditure,  excited 
a  "great  sensation!"  At  length  they  parted,  in  the 
Netherlands,  with  mutual  professions  of  interminable 
friendship,  and  a  fixed  resolution  of  keeping  up  a  regu- 
lar correspondence. 

The  French  Revolution,  however,  which  commenced 
almost  immediately  afterwards,  re\olved  the  whole 
machine  of  European  politics  with  so  rapid  a  whirl  as 
to  throw  England  and  France,  like  two  balls  impelled 
by  centrifugal  power,  at  the  utmost  possible  distance 
from  the  central  point  of  amity  at  which  they  had  lain 
sometime  quietly  together; — the  consequence  of  this 
convulsion  was,  that  although  Charles  and  Louis  had 
correspondent  and  corresponding  inclinations,  they 
found  it  extremely  difficult,  and  at  length  dangerous, 
to  attempt  to  correspond;  and  so  gradually  lost  sight  of 
each  other. 

Charles  returned  to  London,  where  some  tons  of 
statues,  coins,  vases,  paintings,  bronzes,  and  bonzes, 
"bas  and  haut  relievos,"  mummies  and  mummeries,  had 
arrived  before  him.  Consequently,  he  walked  amid  a 
crowd  of  envious  or  admiring  worshippers — a  complete 
lion,  like  Juno  amid  the  lesser  goddesses; — "incedit  leo," 
as  Doctor  Panglos  would  say.  The  shipment  he  had 
made  was  a  most  lucky  hit,  inasmuch  as  it  introduced 
him  to  the  best  society  of  the  day,  and  obtained  for  him 


72  THE   GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

almost  as  many  letters  at  the  end  of  his  name  as  there 
are  papers  on  the  tail  of  a  kite;  so  away  he  went  shining 
among  the  "lesser  stars"  like  a*  comet,  for  several  years; 

and  then No,  fair  reader,  it  was  not  then — but  long 

before,  that  he  had  discovered  that,  with  all  the  excite- 
ment of  unchecked  pleasure,  inexhaustible  riches,  and 
uninterrupted  health,  there  was  still  a  "something" 
wanting.  And  what?  It  was  no  less  than  the  society, 
the  friendship,  the  love  of  one  (if  there  be  such  another 
on  the  earth)  as  good,  as  fair,  and  as  virtuous  as  thou 
art.  He  saw  the  half  forgotten,  or  if  not,  only-remem- 
bered-in-dreams,  form  of  Clara  Haultaught,  and  he 
felt  that  he  had  done  both  her  and  himself  an  injustice 
by  supposing  that  it  was  the  extent  of  her  father's  for- 
tune which  led  him  to  fancy  her  so  exceedingly  beau- 
tiful, when  he  (then  on  the  eve  of  bankruptcy)  had 
danced  with  her  at  Leicester.  He  knew  the  old  ad- 
miral's faihng,  (alas!  that  such  an  anomaly  should  ex- 
ist as  a  brave  but  avaricious  man!)  and  one  day,  after 
dinner,  told  him  that  whenever  he  married,  observing 
by  the  way  that  he  had  no  such  intention,  he  was  re- 
solved never  to  accept  a  penny  of  his  wife's  fortune, 
but  to  settle  the  whole  upon  her  and  her  heirs,  and 
even  to  double  the  amount,  if  her  parents  thought 
fit. 

"Ah!  my  dear.  Sir,"  said  the  admiral,  "if  all  young 
men  had  your  consideration — hem — let  me  see,  there's 
poor  Board'em  of  the  Scourer;  two  years  ago  he  got 
posted,  and  married  Commissioner  Green's  daughter, 


THE    GENTLEMAN   IN    BLACK.  73 

who  had  her  poor  aunt  Bet's  savings  all  in  her  own 
hands,  twenty  thousand  and  more,  got  foul  of  the  Lord 
knows  how  many  d— d  five-farthing,  two-penny-half- 
penny  French  merchant-men.  You  know  what  fol- 
lowed; I  say  nothing — the  prize-court,  and  all  that 
sort  of  thing — teazed,  bothered,   taken  aback,  kept 

ashore,  chaise-and-four,  d n.     You  know  the  rest. 

Got  to  Boodle's,  half  mad.     Not  a  shilling  left." 

An  invitation  was  a  matter  of  course,  and  one  suc- 
ceeded another  as  waves  upon  the  beach. 

"I  never  knew  happiness  before,"  said  Charles  to 
Clara. 

Clara  seemed  as  if  she  had  uttered  the  words,  and 
blushed  (how  Gothic!)  and  looked  she  *'knev7  not 
where,"  she  told  Charles  some  weeks  afterw^ards,  **for 
there  was  a  swimming  mistiness  before  her  eyes." 

The  old  admiral  happened  at  the  time  to  be  "miss- 
ing," and  so  was  every  earthly  object  for  the  space  of 
three  hours,  to  the  eyes  and  recollection  of  the  two 
lovers.  All  they  beheld  w^as  each  other,  until — ding 
dong  went  the  discordant  first  dinner  bell. 

"A  moment — me  moment  longer,  my  dear  Clara!" 
said  Charles. 

The  moment  seemed  scarcely  past  when  the  second 
larum  awoke  Clara  from  her  dream,  and  mechanically 
recollecting  her  father's  extreme  precision,  she  rushed 
from  the  presence  of  her  lover.  Absorbed  in  his 
dreams  of  future  bliss,  he  was  leaning  his  head  upon 
his  hand,  when  in  stalked  the  old  admiral. 


74  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

"AhjCharles!"  said  he,panting,  "How  are  you,  my  lad. 
Devilish  hot  weather.  One  would  think  the  good  ship 
Britannia  was  afloat,  and  we  were  all  crossing  the  line 
together.     Ha!  ha!  eh?" 

"True  enough,"  observed  Charles. 

"Eh?  what's  that?  What's  true  enough?"  asked  the 
admiral. 

"I  have  crossed  the  line,"  said  young  Maxwell. 

"The  devil  you  have!  When,  where,  how?"  ejacu- 
lated the  astonished  seaman. 

"Just  now,"  replied  Charles. 

"JVbrw/  why,  zounds,  boy,  you  are  mad  or  dreaming." 

"Both,"  replied  Charles,  "but  it  is  a  dream  and  de- 
lirium that  will,  I  hope,  last  all  my  life." 

Then  followed  an  explanation,  told  in  as  coherent  a 
manner  as  could  possibly  be  '^expected  under  existing 
circumstances."  The  old  gentleman  affected  gravity, 
although  he  experienced  a  sensation  of  extreme  plea- 
sure: but  at  length  the  generous  feelings  which,  in 
spite  of  individual  imperfections,  seem  ever  to  pervade 
the  breast  of  a  British  seaman,  rose  triumphant  above 
all  disguise. 

"Give  me  your  hand!"  exclaimed  the  admiral,  and 
he  clasped  it  with  as  much  firmness  and  strength  as 
though  he  was  grasping  his  sword  on  the  quarter-deck 
in  the  day  of  battle.  *'But  hold,  young  gentleman,"  he 
continued,  recollecting  himself,  "We're  running  before 
the  wind  into  a  strange  port,  without  taking  soundings. 
You  have  exchanged  broadsides  with  Clara,  I  see  plain 


TBE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  75 

enough.  I  expected  it.  I  must  confess;  so  d — n  all  hy- 
pocrisy; there's  an  end  of  that.  Her  colours,  my  brave 
fellow,  where  are  they?  Lowered,  eh?" 

At  this  moment  Clara  entered  the  drawing-room. 

"Hist!  she  comes,"  whispered  Charles,  anxious  to 
save  his  beloved  from  the  pain  her  father  might  at 
random  inflict  on  her  sensibility. 

"La!  how  delicate,"  exclaims  some  lady's  maid. 
Well,  Miss,  we  can't  help  it;  we  tell  the  tale  as  'twas 
told  to  us;  but  what  a  lady's  sensibility  is,  exactly  and 
preci&ely,  we  cannot  satisfactorily  define. 

The  admiral  knew  nothing  of,  or  else  had  forgotten, 
for  "old  men  will  forget,"  all  about  such  matters,  and 
therefore  repeated  after  Charles. 

"Aye,  here  she  comes,  sure  enough!  and  seems 
taken  a  little  aback.  Come,  Clary,  my  dear,  the  se- 
cret's all  out.     It's  no  use  ^shamming  Abraham'  now, 

so  what  say  you,  my  own  dear  little God  bless  you!" 

Here  the  old  veteran's  utterance  was  stopt  by  the 
close  embrace  of  his  daughter,  who  threw  herself  upon 
his  neck  and  kissed  him  with  a  most  vehement  alacrity, 
yet,  strange  to  say,  all  the  while  sobbing  "to  match." 

"Come,  come,  my  dear  girl,  Clary,"  gasped  the  ad- 
miral, "my  love — nay,  nay,  dearest,  don't  cry.  Have 
it  all  your  own  way;  I  won't  no,  not  to  be  made  com- 
mander-in-chief in  the  East.  No,  no,  come,  come,  d — n 
it>  gi^lj  you'll  choke  me! — So,  then,  you  won't  strike 
your  colours,  mayhap?  eh?" 

"Down,  down  to  the  ground,  my  beloved  father," 


76  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

said  Clara,  and  sinking  on  her  knees,  she  grasped  those 
of  her  parent,  whose  eyes  were  suffused  with  tears, 
while  his  face  exhibited  a  strange  warfare.  It  seemed 
to  have  been  "boarded"  by  "sensibility,"  striving  hard 
to  overcome  its  opponent,  who  had  "assumed"  the 
command,  and  every  muscle  was  briskly  engaged,  fight- 
ing inch  by  inch.  At  last  down  fell  the  streamers;  it 
was  all  over. 

"What  a  d— d  old  fool  I  am,"  sobbed  the  admiral,  sink- 
ing upon  a  sofa.  Then  up  rose  Clara,  and  down  fell 
Charles  upon  one  knee;  and  both  of  them  hung  over 
the  old  gentleman,  and  applied,  or  rather  endeavoured 
to  apply,  smeUing  bottles,  &c. 

"I'm  a  d — d  stupid,  lubberly,  snivelling  old  fellow. 
I  never  did  so  but  once  before,  and  that  was  when  the 
lilies  came  tumbling  down  first  after  I  was  posted — 
sinking,  by  G — d!  not  a  shot  left;  sea  running;  cou'dn't 
board  'em;  not  a  sail  in  sight;  d — n  it see  the  Ga- 
zette. Why  do  you  both  make  such  a  fool  of  me? 
Clary,  Charles,  give  me  your  hands;  there,  there;  d — n 
these  stinking  bottles!  I'm  qualmish  only,  that's  all. 
Go,  Clary,  go,  there's  a  good  girl,  and — hem!  ahem! — 
bring  me  a  glass  of  brandy."  Clara,  hke  a  dutiful 
child,  did  as  she  was  bid.  The  patient  swallowed  the 
medicine  as  a  patient  ought,  and  the  medicine  did  as 
all  medicine  ought;  it  cured  the  patient,  who  imme- 
diately walked  briskly  three  times  up  and  down  the 
room,  and  then — they  went  to  dinner. 

In  the  evening  of  that  day,  the  admiral  was  closeted 
with  old  Bagsby,  his  lean  legal  adviser. 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  77 

"The  young  felloVs  fortune  equal  to  yours!"  ex- 
claimed  the  man  of  law.     "It  can't  be,  admiral." 

"Why  not,  Sir?"  asked  the  veteran.  "His  father, 
you  know,  was  a  West  India  merchant;  and  a  British 
merchant,  let  me  tell  you " 

"Pshaw!"  said  the  other;  "but  here's  a  young  fellow 
who  is  any  thing  but  a  merchant — living  like  a  lord. 
I  don't  suppose  he  has  been  to  the  counting-house  half 
a  dozen  times  since  his  father's  death." 

"Hem!  perhaps  not,"  repUed  the  admiral;  "however, 
the  simple  state  of  the  case  stands  thus:  He  is  not  to 
receive  a  penny  with  Clary — but  whatever  I  chose  to 
settle  upon  her  and  her  heirs,  he  offers  to  double." 

"The  devil!"  exclaimed  old  Bagsby. 

"And  that's  not  all,"  continued  the  admiral,  "we 
talked  of  sums — plain,  point-blank  sums.  Clary's  my 
only  child,  said  I- — and,  for  myself — with  my  habits — 
if  I  shouldn't  get  afloat  again,  and  I  don't  see  why  not 
— my  pay's  enough.  One  hundred  thousand,  said  I — 
make  it  two,  says  he,  if  you  like,  admiral.  Suppose, 
says  I — it  will  save  the  legacy  duty,  when  the  old  hulk 
goes  to  pieces — Suppose  we  say  three — done,  says  he, 
I'll  make  it  six." 

"The  Lord  have  mercy  upon  us!"  exclaimed  Bagsby. 

"What's  the  matter?"  asked  the  admiral. 

"Matter!"    muttered   the   lawyer,   "Hem,   matter? 

why,  here  have  I,  for  more  than  half  a  century,  been 

rising  early  and  sitting  up  late,  making  the  most  of 

every  thing  that  came  in  the  way;  spending  nothing 
G  2 


78  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

— saving — scraping  together,  in  hopes  that  in  my  old 
age " 

"Pshaw!"  said  the  admiral,  "youVe  feathered  your 
nest  well  enough,  I  know — so,  no  grumbling — but  to 
business.     How  long  will  it  take  to  prepare  the  deed?" 

"Ah,  ah!  ahem!  Let  me  see.  In  a  case  of  such 
moment,  my  dear  Sir,  every  thing  should,  you  know, 
be  arranged  with  extreme  caution.  The  amount  is 
immense — it  depends  much  upon  the  nature  of  the  pro- 
perty— most  Hkely  some  of  the  young  gentlemen's  is  in 
the  West  Indies — and — ahem!  you  know,  my  good  Sir, 
how  precarious  such  sort  of  possessions  are;  particular- 
ly in  time  of  war,  when  the  enemy's  fleets  are  wander- 
ing upon  the  sea,  the  Lord  knows  where ." 

"The  Lord  knows  where,  indeed!"  exclaimed  the 
veteran,  "I  only  wish  we  could  catch'em  at  it — *wan- 
dering,'  as  you  call  it — that's  all,  but,  pshaw!  d — n  your 
six-and-eight-penny  opinions  about  the  war.  See  the 
lad  yourself  on  the  business — my  money's  all  in  the 
bank  of  England,  and  the  papers  are  in  my  strong  box 
at  Hamsley's." 

The  next  morning,  Charles  Maxwell,  having  supplied 
himself  with  the  amount  specified,  from  the  usual 
source,  called  upon  the  admiral,  and  they  had  scarcely 
exchanged  salutations,  when  Bagsby  was  announced. 

"By  the  by,"  asked  the  veteran,  "has  the  old  fellow 
called  upon  you  this  morning,  with  his  bag,  and  papers, 
and  tape,  and  the  devil  knows  what?" 

"Who?  Sir!"  Charles  inquired,  in  a  tone  of  alarm, 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  79 

which  raised  a  momentary  suspicion  in  the  mind  of  his 
father-in-law  elect. 

"My  lawyer,  Sir,  Mr.  Bagsby,"  was  the  grave  reply. 
"He  was  to  call  on  you  respecting  the  subject  of  our 
conversation  yesterday,  and  is  now  here  in  the  room 
below,  by  my  appointment,  in  order  to  arrange  the  bu- 
siness." 

"Oh!  is  that  all?"  said  Charles,  smiling,  "Let  us  have 
him  up,  by  all  means." 

Accordingly,  the  man  of  parchment  (to  which  epithet 
the  texture  of  his  skin  alone  might  have  afforded  him 
a  fair  claim)  was  shewn  into  the  presence  of  his  two 
most  wealthy,  and  of  course,  most  worshipful  clients; 
towards  whom  he  came  bowing,  and  bending,  and  grin- 
ning, and  worshipping,  in  their  persons,  his  idol  Mam- 
mon, in  a  manner  sufficiently  ludicrous.  After  a  thou- 
sand apologies,  and  such  sort  of  tom-foolery,  they  pro- 
ceeded to  business,  and  the  man  of  law  inquired  the 
name  of  young  Maxwell's  professional  adviser,  with 
whom  he  felt,  no  doubt,  he  should  be  happy  to  act, 
on  the  present  occasion. 

"Aye,  aye!  like  a  pair  of  shears,"  quoth  the  admiral, 
"Ha,  ah!  eh!  Bagsby — cut  what  comes  between,  eh?  7iot 
each  other,  ah?" 

"1  ?iever  employed  a  lawyer  since  I  was  of  age,"  said 
Charles. 

"What!"  exclaimed  old  Bagsby,  as  his  rigid  frame 
started  into  a  perpendicular.  ("A  sensible  young  fel- 
low!" thought  the  veteran.)     "Hem,  ahem!  ahem!"  re- 


80  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

peatedly  repeated  poor  Bagsby,  ere  he  could  proceed  to 
state  a  few  of  the  various  reasons  why  it  was  "advisa- 
ble to  be  advised,  prudent  and  circumspect,  needful 
and  absolutely  necessary,  &c.  &c,,  in  all  such  and  the 
like  and  similar  sorts  and  kinds  of  cases,  where  and 
wherein,  and  in  and  concerning  which  property,  &c. 
&c.  &c.,  and  all  such  sort  of  thing,  was  various  and 
of  numerous  descriptions  and  kinds,  both  as  it  regarded 
and  concerned  estimated  value  of  estates,  &c. 

Here  Charles,  having  been  too  much  accustomed  of 
late  to  have  his  own  way,  became  weary  of  listening, 
and  interrupted  the  speaker  with  a  most  ungracious 
yawn,  followed  by  a  "Pish!"  Having  thus  "caught  the 
speaker's  eye,"  as  well  as  stopt  his  tongue,  he  proceeded. 

"There  can  be  no  difficulty  in  the  present  case.  I 
believe,  admiral,  we  understand  each  other.  I  agree 
to  settle  on  your  daughter  the  same  amount  as  you 
think  fit  to  do  yourself" 

"Exactly,"  replied  the  veteran,  and  I,  to  save  legacy 
duty,  mean  to  settle  all  I  have,  excepting  this  house 
and  grounds,  which  are  at  an  easy  distance  from  the 
admiralty." 

"Nothing  can  be  clearer,"  said  Charles.  "The  sum 
is,  I  think,  three  hundred  thousand." 

"Exactly  so,"  said  old  Haultaught,  "and" — coolly 
continued  Charles,  taking  out  his  black  morocco  leather 
pocket  book,  "there — there  is  the  money." 

"By  the  trident  of  Neptune,  and  the  old  gh:l  that 
holds  it!"  shouted  the  admiral.     You're  a  noble  fel- 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  81 

low.  If  you  hadn't  a  brass  farthing,  Clary  should  never 
— But,  I'm  afraid,  my  dear  boy,  you  have  been  too 
hasty.  Have  you  made  your  calculations  about  house- 
keeping, and  so  on?  I  should  not  like  you  and  Clary  to 
shorten  sail,  and  if  we  lock  up  such  a  sum  as  this,  per- 
haps   " 

"It  will  make  no  sort  of  difference,  I  assure  you.  I 
shall  never  miss  it." 

*' Wonderful!"  thought  old  Bagsby,  "I'll  try  and  get 
a  share  in  some  West  India  concern  myself." 

The  "instrument"  was  immediately  drawn  up,  "sign- 
ed, sealed,  and  delivered,"  by  the  admiral  and  Charles, 
as  their  own  "act  and  deed;"  and  the  next  act  was 
marriage. 

Then  away  flew  time.  Year  rolled  away  after  year. 
The  old  admiral  went  to  sea  again,  and  had  a  glorious 
brush  or  two,  "short  and  sweet;"  and  gave  Monsieur  a 
smack  in  "the  chops  of  the  channel."  Then  he  went 
to  bask  himself,  like  a  dry  old  fish  as  he  was,  on  India's 
sunny  shore;  from  whence,  after  the  benefit  of  a  seven 
years'  fry,  he  returned,  considerably  increased  in 
wealth.  It  was  a  proud  day  for  the  whole  party  when 
the  veteran  landed  at  Portsmouth,  and  Charles  and 
Clara  presented  to  him  their  first-born,  a  fine  boy,  then 
eight  years  of  age,  in  a  middy's  uniform;  and  his  sister 
Clara,  a  beautiful  little  wax  doll,  as  her  mother  had 
been  before  her.  So  at  least  thought  Admiral  Haul- 
taught,  and  declaring  that  she  was  too  beautiful  and 
delicate  as  yet  to  be  played  with  by  a  rough  sailor, 


82  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

he  seized  upon  the  sturdy  boy  as  his  lawful  prize;  and 
many  a  ride,  and  walk,  and  gambol,  and  frolic,  and 
quarrel,  and  reconciliation,  had  they  together,  both  in 
town  and  country,  till  the  youth  was  old  enough  to 
serve  his  King.  Then, — it  was  a  hard  task,  but  it  must 
be  the  case  with  us  all, — they  parted  for  the  last  time. 
"Charles  Haultaught  Maxwell,"  said  the  old  admiral, 
"Remember  that's  your  name,  my  dear  boy.  Fear 
God  and  honour  your  King.  Look  at  the  British  flag; 
let  it  be  your  business  to  see  that  respected  wherever  it 
floats,  either  in  a  cock-boat  or  a  first-rate;  mind  thatf 
and   d — n   all   politics.     Leave  them   to  the  lubbers 

ashore.     Remember  poor  Nelson's  last  signals Well, 

well,  I  know  you  will.     But  mind — if  ever  you  disgrace 
your  name,  d — n  me  if  I  leave  you  a  copper  bolt." 

"With  this  and  the  like  advice  the  poor  old  gentle- 
man blessed  his  beloved  grandson,  till  he  delivered  him 
into  the  hands  of  an  old  mess-mate,  and  saw  his  young 
hero  borne  away  upon  the  green  billows,  from  Yar- 
mouth jetty,  in  the  jolly  boat  of  H.  M.  S.  the  D . 

With  his  glass  he  stood  watching  her  progress  till  all 
hands  were  safely  on  board.  "He  walks  the  quarter- 
deck now  for  the  first  time,"  thought  the  Vetera^,  and 
a  thousand  images,  created  by  memory  and  fancy  al- 
ternately, kept  him  company  all  the  way  to  London, 
as  he  sat  recHned  back  in  his  travelling  carriage.  A 
few  months  terminated  the  old  gentleman's  mortal  ca- 
reer. His  efiigies  graced  Westminster  Abbey,  and  his 
Eastern  wealth  formed  another  immense  accumulating 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  83 

fund,  which  his  son-in-law,  for  reasons  we  wot  of,  felt 
not  so  delighted  with  as  is  usual  in  such  cases.  The 
domestic  felicity  of  Charles  and  Clara  was  perfect. 

The  termination  of  our  late  long-protracted  war 
brought  our  happy  couple  to  the  afternoon  of  life. 
Young  Charles  was  a  fine  young  lieutenant,  just  of  age, 
and  with  property  and  interest  amply  sufficient  (to  say 
nothing  of  certain  musty  Gazettes)  to  expect  "to  be 
posted,"  ^c.  &c.  as  soon  as  "propriety  would  allow." 
Clara  was  all  that  the  fondest,  aye,  or  the  wisest  (and 
the  terms  are  not  always  synonymous,  we  fear)  of 
mothers  could  desire.  Had  the  old  admiral  lived,  he 
might  have  altered  his  opinion — or,  perhaps  he  might 
not.  The  fortune  which  he  left  her  failed  not,  how- 
ever, to  throw  around  her  every  charm  and  grace,  a 
dazzling  halo,  in  which,  like  insects  round  a  flame,  a 
thousand  gay,  thoughtless,  and  fluttering  ephemera 
sported,  and  were  blinded,  scorched,  and  "damaged" 
for  their  temerity. 

But  another  year  passed,  and  Charles  Maxwell,  that 
is,  the  "old  original"  Charles  Maxwell  of  our  tale, 
underwent  a  sad  and  melancholy  alteration.  Long  fits 
of  mental  absence  occupied  him  when  in  society.  No 
more  the  well  turned  repartee  or  mirthful  jest  issued 
from  his  now  pale  lips. 

Seldom  he  smiled— and  then  in  such  a  sort, 
As  though  he  smiled  in  scorn,  to  think  that  he 
Could  e'en  be  moved  to  smile  at  anything. 


84  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN   BLACK. 

"Xeque  vigiliis  neque  quietibus  sedari  poterat."  as 
Sallust  savs  of  Cataline.  In  plain  English,  he  was 
never  easv,  sleeping  or  waking.  ''The  consequence" 
WEis,  thai  in  a  very  short  space  of  time  ("colos  ei  exsan- 
guis,  foedi  oculi,  citus  modo,  modo  tardus;  prorsus  in 
facie,  vultuque  vecordia  inerat,")  he  got  horribly  pale, 
ghastly  about  the  eyes,  and  became  a  disagreeable,  shuf- 
fling, unsociable,  uncertain  sort  of  a  fellow;  more  like 
a  poor  lunatic,  who  fancied  himself  hunted  by  devils, 
than  a  well-bred,  easy-going  country  gentleman. 

The  reason  for  this  change  was ,  that  he  had  been 
calculating,  and  had  discovered  that,  by  the  tenor  of 
his  engagement  with  the  Gentleman  in  Black,  whom, 
by  the  way,  we  hope  our  readers  will  take  especial 
care  not  to  forget,  during  the  silent  and  almost  imper- 
ceptible lapse  of  nearly  eight-and-twenty  years,  his 
tribute  had  increased  from  the  minute  matter  of  a  mo- 
ment, to  an  annual  demand  of  two  thousand  three  hun- 
dred and  thirty  days  and  a  fraction,  calculating  each 
day  at  sixteen  hours  in  length,  and  all  to  be  spent  in 
sin.  Such  was  the  ^'demand"  for  sin  in  the  then  cur- 
rent year.  It  is  true  that  there  had  been  no  grum- 
bling on  the  part  of  his  ally  or  adversary;  and  sup- 
phes  of  money,  when  required,  which  had  however 
rarely  been  caUed  for  of  late,  were  never  refused. 
There  were,  doubtless,  past  sins  sufficient  to  keep  all 
square,  *'as  per  agreement,"  hitherto;  but  Charles 
could  not  flatter  himself  that  he  had  sufficient  "on 
hand"  to  make  up  an  amount  of  four  thousand  six 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  85 

hundred  and  six  days  for  the  next  year,  and  for  that 
which  was  to  follow,  nine  thousand! — all  was  utter 
darkness  and  desperation.  Yet  all  this  arose  from 
agreeing  to  sin  for  one  single  moment  "per  annum.'* 
Reader,  take  care  you  never  make  such  a  compact. 

Charles  had  been  at  Paris  the  year  before,  hoping 
to  discover  the  fate  of  his  fellow-^4ctim,  Louis  Deson- 
ges.  The  usual  mode  of  finding  rich  individuals, 
through  their  bankers,  was,  of  course,  in  the  present 
instance,  unserviceable,  and  the  pohce  knew  no  such 
person.  As  the  crisis  of  his  fate,  however,  was  equally 
near  with  that  of  Charles  Maxwell,  it  was  fit  we 
should  run  over  the  principal  events  of  his  life,  from 
the  commencement  of  the  Revolution  to  the  end  of  the 
war,  or  rather  wars  issuing  therefrom,  like  snakes 
from  a  Medusa's  head. 

During  the  reign  of  terror,  his  riches  gained  him 
both  friends  and  enemies:  conducted  him  into  prison, 
and  purchased  him  out;  he  found  that  reformers  from 
the  crowd,  or  *"'canaille,"  are  ever  vain  and  venal. 
The  ignorant  make  sad  use  of  power,  the  proper  ex- 
tent of  which  they  cannot  comprehend;  so  they  stretch 
it,  as  children  will  a  piece  of  Indian  rubber,  till  it  snaps 
back  upon  them  and  hurts  their  fingers,  and  then  they 
are  glad  to  let  it  fall  out  of  their  hands.  Those  among 
the  French  evanescent  governors  who  had  any  nous, 
made  their  observations,  and  most  attentively  marked 
out  those  whose  plethoric  purses  seemed  to  expose 


86  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

them  to  the  danger  of  temptation,  and  falling  off  from 
their  new  (not  as  we  have  it,  true)  allegiance. 

Louis  wept  over  the  niisfortunes  of  his  country,  and, 
be  it  said  to  his  honour,  the  riches  of  which  he  had  in 
so  strange  a  manner  acquired  the  command,  were  fre- 
quently devoted  to  the  relief  of  those  whose  property 
had  been  swept  away  in  the  tumult.  Among  others, 
the  Comte  de  Tien  a  la  Cour,  and  his  lovely  daughter, 
Emilie,  were  indebted  to  him  for  their  safety,  and  for 
his  company  in  their  flight  into  Switzerland,  where  he 
settled  them  in  a  beautiful  and  retired  situation  near 
Vevay,  and  on  the  borders  of  the  blue  lake  Leman. 
With  certain  resolutions  in  his  head,  away  then  posted 
Louis  towards  the  Rhine,  and  on  the  banks  thereof  dis- 
covered and  purchased  an  ancient  baronial  chateau  and 
estate,  together  with  its  title. 

"How  wretched  a  thing  it  is  to  have  to  do  with  law- 
yers!" exclaimed  Louis  to  the  ci-devant  baron,  whose 
honours  he  was  purchasing,  and  who  might  literally 
have  been  said  (according  to  the  French  term  "man- 
ger ses  biens")  to  have  ^'■eaten  up"  his  estate.  "They 
are  dreadfully  slow." 

"Humph!"  said  the  Baron  de  Braanksdorfischen, 
"I've  sometimes  found  them  too  quick." 

"When  you  were  not  in  a  hurry,  then,  I'll  be  bound 
to  say,"  observed  Louis. 

"Aye,"  was  the  reply.  "Do  you  purpose  living 
here,  Monsieur?" 

Louis  replied  in  the  negative. 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  89 

ed  with,  several  of  the  most  ancient  houses  in  France; 
but^  he  was  determined  to  believe  if  possible,  and  that 
is  a  great  matter  in  such  cases.  The  document  had  its 
expected  influence  upon  the  Comte,  for  it  was  drawn 
out  and  blazoned  in  due  heraldric  terms  and  forms;  and, 
perhaps,  he  likewise  was  resolved  to  believe.  As  for  Emi- 
lie,  like  most  of  her  sex,  when  once  fairly  in  love,  it 
would  have  been  much  the  same  thing  to  her  had  her 
lover  changed  his  name  to  Bourreau,  for  she  was  much 
of  Juliet's  way  of  thinking,  that  "a  rose  with  any  other 
name  would  smell  as  sweet." 

"My  dear   M.  le  Baron,"  said  M.  le  Comte,   ''you 
must  be  well  aware  of  the  sincerity,  I  might  almost 
say,  the  devotion  of  my  attachment  and  friendship.  You 
are  the  only  man  upon  the  face  of  the  earth,  his  Catho- 
lic Majesty  alone  excepted,  from  whom  I  would  have 
deigned  to  accept  any  sort  of  assistance  in- the  present 
tate  of  things;  but,  my  daughter  is  now,  alas!  the  sole 
,  oe,  the  only  remaining  branch  of  an  ancient  and 
..  illustrious  house;  and,  indeed,  I  am  glad  to  find, 
,      ,  '>owever,  I  never  doubted,  that  you  really  are  so 
.       .„  ,    'ied  to  the  Montmorencies,  the  Grammonts, 

.    ^         '^euls.     When  we  return  to  France,  I  have 
sort  of  a  man  ... 

T      .  ;  can,  from  my  connexions  at  Versailles, 

Louis  complei.  -' 

x-i.1    X    CI    '^     succession  arranged;  and  that  my 
new  title  to  Switze  ^  ^ 

J         ,  .      ,  *^n  I  am  cone,  which,  in  the  com- 

and  most  graciously  ,  &       ' 

rent.     And  there — the  Vc.  ^.         ^ 

,  ^.    ,  *M.  le  Comte,"  exclaimed 

makes  one  poetical — 

''to  spare  my  feelings. 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 


them  to  the  danger  of  temptation,  and  falling  off  from 
their  new  (not  as  we  have  it,  true)  allegiance. 

Louis  wept  over  the  niisfortunes  of  his  country,  and, 
be  it  said  to  his  honour,  the  riches  of  which  he  had  in 
so  strange  a  manner  acquired  the  command,  were  fre- 
quently devoted  to  the  relief  of  those  whose  property 
had  been  swept  away  in  the  tumult.  Among  others, 
the  Comte  de  Tien  a  la  Cour,  and  his  lovely  daughter, 
Emilie,  were  indebted  to  him  for  their  safety,  and  for 
his  company  in  their  flight  into  Switzerland,  where  he 
settled  them  in  a  beautiful  and  retired  situation  near 
Vevay,  and  on  the  borders  of  the  blue  lake  Leman. 
With  certain  resolutions  in  his  head,  away  then  posted 
Louis  towards  the  Rhine,  and  on  the  banks  thereof  dis- 
covered and  purchased  an  ancient  baronial  chateau  and 
estate,  together  with  its  title. 

"How  wretched  a  thing  it  is  to  have  to  do  with  law- 
yers!" exclaimed  Louis  to  the  ci-devant  baron,  whose  a 
honours  he  was  purchasing,  and  who  might  literall-  de 
have  been  said  (according  to  the  French  term  "m/gra- 
ger  ses  biens")  to  have  ^'•eaten  up"  his  estate.  ""^  ^^  of  a 
are  dreadfully  slow."  compunc- 

"Humph!"   said    the   Baron   de   Braan^  ^^"  tracer.of 
"I've  sometimes  found  them  too  quick."    consequence  of 

"When  you  were  not  in  a  hurry,  +  '"^°  ^^^^  ^^  deline- 
to  say,"  observed  Louis.  ;  ^^  "^^  Baron  was 

"Aye,"   was   the  reply.         "  ^'^  S^eat  grandfathers 
here,  Monsieur?"  '^^^  related  to,  and  connect- 

Louis  replied  in  tb 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  89 

ed  with,  several  of  the  most  ancient  houses  in  France; 
but^  he  was  determined  to  believe  if  possible,  and  that 
is  a  great  matter  in  such  cases.  The  document  had  its 
expected  influence  upon  the  Comte,  for  it  was  drawn 
out  and  blazoned  in  due  heraldric  terms  and  forms;  and, 
perhaps,  he  likewise  was  resolved  to  believe.  As  for  Emi- 
lie,  hke  most  of  her  sex,  when  once  fairly  in  love,  it 
would  have  been  much  the  same  thing  to  her  had  her 
lover  changed  his  name  to  Bourreau,  for  she  was  much 
of  Juliet's  way  of  thinking,  that  "a  rose  with  any  other 
name  would  smell  as  sweet." 

"My  dear  M.  le  Baron,"  said  M.  le  Comte,  ''you 
must  be  well  aware  of  the  sincerity,  I  might  almost 
say,  the  devotion  of  my  attachment  and  friendship.  You 
are  the  only  man  upon  the  face  of  the  earth,  his  Catho- 
lic Majesty  alone  excepted,  from  whom  I  would  have 
deigned  to  accept  any  sort  of  assistance  in- the  present 
state  of  things;  but,  my  daughter  is  now,  alas!  the  sole 
hope,  the  only  remaining  branch  of  an  ancient  and 
most  illustrious  house;  and,  indeed,  I  am  glad  to  find, 
what,  however,  I  never  doubted,  that  you  really  are  so 
closely  allied  to  the  Montmorencies,  the  Grammonts, 
and  the  Choiseuls.  When  we  return  to  France,  I  have 
no  doubt  that  I  can,  from  my  connexions  at  Versailles, 
have  the  affair  of  succession  arranged;  and  that  my 
title  will  descend  when  I  am  gone,  which,  in  the  com- 
mon course  of  things,  cannot" 

"I  beseech  you,  my  dear  M.  le  Comte,"  exclaimed 

the  Baron  of  Braanksdorfischen,  *'to  spare  my  feelings. 
h2 


90  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

I  trust  you  will  long  live  to  enjoy  your  title  and  estates. 
I  see  no  reason  why  you  should  not  marry  again,  and 
that  they  should  descend  in  regular  succession  to  your 
heirs  male." 

"Nor  I  neither,  M.  le  Baron,"  said  the  Comte,  "it  is 
a  good  idea.  We  will  see  about  it;"  and  forthwith  he 
advanced  to'  a  large  mirror,  and  paid  his  respects  to  his 
own  respectable  figure  reflected  therein. 

The  marriage  took  place  immediately,  and  was,  like 
most  other  marriages  wherein  money  is  abundant,  con- 
ducted in  such  a  manner  as  to  give  an  extravagant  idea 
of  the  happiness  of  the  "happy  pair.^'  The  most  de- 
lightful part  of  the  affair,  however,  was,  that  Louis  and 
Emilie,  now  the  Baron  and  Baroness  of  Braanksdorfis- 
chen,  were  really  happy,  and  continued  so  for  a  consi- 
derable period  of  time:  they  say  for  nearly  a  month. 
After  that,'  when  the  dream  of  rapture  and  perfect 
bliss  had  vanished,  they  lived  much  like  other  people, 
and  each  marvelled  occasionally  that  they  should  have 
been  so  silly  as  to  expect  absolute  perfection  in  any 
human  being.  They  passed,  however,  many  pleasant 
months  in  Switzerland:  but  the  leaven  of  the  revolu- 
tion spread,  and  Italy  was  their  next  refuge — then 
Malta — then  to  France — La  Belle,  la  glorieuse.  All  was 
right  again,  for  Paris  was  as  gay  or  gayer  than  ever;  so 
they  fell  down  and  worshipped  the  images  which  fac- 
tion, or  war,  or  fashion  happened  to  set  up,  and  there- 
by proved  they  were — born  in  France,  the  land  of 
liberty  and  equality.     In  the  profession  of  the  latter 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  91 

*^€galiii,^^  they  have  been  most  singularly  consistent; 
for,  whether  he  has  had  a  triumvirate,  a  consular,  a 
regal,  or  an  imperial  government.  Monsieur  has  always 
been  equally  faithful.  "C'est  egal,"  quoth  he,  on  all 
occasions. 

When  Napoleon  was  very  short  of  money  once,  the 
Baron  de  Braanksdorfischen  was  said  to  have  waited 
upon  Talleyrand;  and  it  was  hinted  that  the  elevation 
of  the  Baron  de  Braanksdorfischen  to  the  peerage  of 
France,  under  the  title  of  Le  Comte  d'Ormalle,  was 
closely  connected  with  that  visit.  Be  that  as  it  may, 
from  that  period  our  French  hero  attained  a  degree  of 
popularity  which  he  kept  as  long  as  he  thought  proper. 
His  family  affairs  went  on  comfortably  enough,  since 
Emiliie  never  had  occasion  to  ask  him  twice  for  money, 
and  he  never  grumbled  at  her  expenditure.  Like  his 
quondam  friend,  Charles,  he  had  two  children,  a  boy 
and  girl,  who  grew  up  most  promisingly;  being  allowed 
to  do  all  that  seemed  good  in  their  own  eyes,  and  to 
draw  money  *'at  discretion."  Whether  they  spent  it 
discreetly  is  another  affair,  and  one  of  which  their  pa- 
rents took  no  cognizance. 

The  glory  of  the  great  empire — the  emperor  and 
king — the  young  king  of  Pvome — the  march  of  mind, 
and  the  march  of  armies — the  invasion  of  that  accursed 
Angleterre — the  merits  of  David — the  occupation  of 
Spain — the  Talma — the  "Arcs  des  Triompbes" — les 
grande  battailles — Venus  de  ]\iedicis — the  coronation — 
bridges  over  the  Seine — charters — oaths  of  allegiance — 


92  THE    GENTLRMAN    IN    BLACK. 

operas — calembourgs — Apollo  Belvidere — the  over- 
throw of  kingdoms,  and  the  summersets  of  Monsieur^ 
Martin,  the  bear  in  the  botanic  gardens,  and  of  M.  M. 
Pieddouble  at  the  Port  St.  Martin — and  such  sort  of 
important  matters,  equally  and  alternately  occupied 
Monsieur  le  Comte  de  Tien  a  la  Cour,  the  old  gray- 
headed  perpendicular  grandfather  of  the  family,  Mon- 
sieur le  Comte  D'Ormalle,  the  Comtesse,  and  the  two 
young  sprigs  of  rising  nobility. 

Then  away  flew  time,  and  with  it  away  flew  many 
of  the  above,  and  other,  and  such  like  matters — the 
emperor  was  off,  that  is,  not  on,  his  throne;  though  Jie 
kept  his  title  with  a  tenacity  which  must  have  been 
truly  gratifying  to  his  veteran  military  associates,  who 
could  not  but  have  felt  convinced,  that  when  he  by  no- 
minal honours  rewarded  their  services,  he  bestowed 
what  he  conceived  to  be  for  himself  most  desirable. 
Away  flew  the  Apollo  and  Venus,  and  the  king  of 
Rome,  for  the  march  of  mind  and  of  armies  had  taken 
a  new  direction;  the  invasion  of  England  was  postponed 
sine  die;  David  brushed  with  his  brushes  to  Brussels,  for 
fear  of  a  brush  from  the  sweeping  broom  of  the  law; 
and  the  glory,  the  imperishable  glory  of  the  empire — 
its  military  glory — that  might  have  remained  to  have 
embalmed  the  names  of  "les  braves,"  who  fought  and 
bled,  and  devoted  themselves  for  their  country,  though 
a  tyrant  were  their  leader:  but  oaths  of  allegiance, 
sworn  and  forgotten,  reiterated  and  broken,  tarnished 
their  hard  earned  laurels;  and it  is  a  pity  that^to  de 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN   BLACK.  93 

chamhre,  and  coffee-house  politicians  should  have  cack- 
led so  much  about  the  matter,  and  that  obscure  demi- 
soldes  should  claim  for  all,  what  some  might  yet  de- 
mand, and  will  doubtless  receive  from  posterity. 

The  Comte  D'Ormalle  had  shared  those  honours 
which  riches  may  ever  command  among  the  sons  of 
men,  whether  under  kingly,  imperial,  or  republican 
governments.  He  hailed  the  return  of  Louis  le  Desire; 
yet  some  thought  his  coffers  were  opened  during  the 
hundred  days — the  gentleman  in  black  would  scarcely 
have  made  any  objection;  but  it  is  a  point  upon  which 
we  dare  not  speak  positively. 

When  Napoleon  "caught  a  Tartar"  at  Mont  St 
Jean,  and  all  was  settled,  the  Comte  D'Ormalle  settled 
likewise  at  his  Chateau  D'Ormalle,  on  the  banks  of  the 
Loire,  where  a  settled  melancholy  appeared  to  prey 
upon  him,  and  he  betook  himself  to  wandering  to  and 
fro,  like  an  unquiet  spirit;  for  he,  like  Charles  Maxwell, 
had  taken  his  calculations,  and  was  ever  balancing,  and 
thinking  of  a  monastery,  and — the  gentleman  with  the 
black  coat,  Geneva  cloak,  &c.  &c.  To  these  medita- 
tions the  Comtesse  left  him  undisturbed,  and  pursued 
the  now  indispensable  frivolities  of  the  metropolis,  where 
she  became  the  nucleus  of  a  most  ancient  coterie  of  the 
most  ancient  names  and  dignified  personages;  who  ut- 
terly despising  the  mushroom  race  of  nick-named  nobi- 
lity, congregated  where  they  could  safely  vent  the 
spleen  which  they  had  for  so  many  years  been  bottling 
up,  while  in  a  state  of  expatriation. 


94  THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 

Having  thus  seen  that  the  Comte  D'Orniialle  was  not 
in  better  plight  than  Charles  Maxwell,  it  becomes  our 
duty  to  state  their  ulterior  proceedings  under  such  ap- 
palling prospects. 


CHAPTEU  V. 

■;  *:^ 

In  the  long  hours  which  poor  Charles  Maxwell  now 
habitually  spent  in  solitude,  he  indulged  himself  yet, 
occasionally,  in  the  dreams  and  visions  of  hope;  and,  in 
one  of  these  reveries,  he  luckily  recollected  old  Bagsby, 
the  late  admiral's  lean  legal  adviser,  of  whose  shrewd 
exploits  he  had  heard  many  a  singularity. 

"If  the  old  fellow  is  yet  living,"  thougMSi^;  "and  has 
been  going  on  steadily  in  the  same  way  ever  since  I 
saw  him  last,  he  must,  by  this  time,  be  a  match  even 
for  the  gentleman  in  black  himself." 

With  such  reflections,  he  lost  no  time,  but  posted  to 
the  old  fellow's  chambers  in  Lyon's  Inn,  where  he  sat, 
half  buried  among  piles  of  dusty  books  and  papers,  like 
a  lion  ant  at  the  bottom  of  his  inverted  cone  of  crum- 
bling sand,  ready  to  seize  on  any  poor  animal  uncon- 
sciously approaching  its  verge. 

Bagsby  was  delighted  to  see  our  hero;  for  he  had 
not  forgotten  the  three  hundred  thousand  pounds.  So 
he  took  him  cordially  by  the  hand,  entreated  him  to  be 
seated,  adjusted  his  own  wig,  stirred  up  the  four  square 
inches  of  smoking  cinders  huddled  together  in  one  cor- 
ner of  the  grate,  bowed  and  grinned,  rubbed  his  hands 


96  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

and  his-  spectacles,  bowed  and  grinned,  and  bowed  and 
grinned  again. 

At  length  Mr.  Maxwell  did  "a  tale  unfold,"  which 
had  an  effect  almost  as  tremendous  as  that  described  by 
Shakspeare,  in  the  well-known  passage,  the  commence- 
ment of  which  we  have  just  quoted.  But  old  Bagsby 
had  been  so  long  accustomed  to  intricate  cases,  that, 
let  him  be  thrown  where  he  might,  he  always  con- 
trived, as  it  were,  like  a  cat,  to  fall  upon  his  legs,  and 
find  some  place  to  cling  to.  So,  after  a  long  pause,  he 
thus  addressed  his  client. 

"Hem!  my  dear  Sir,  this  is  an  ugly  piece  of  business. 
Hem — I  have  oertainly  heard  of  this  gentleman  in 
black — hem — I  remember  once  fancying  that  I  saw 
him:  but  we  have  many  strange  characters  to  deal 
with  in  the  way  of  our  profession— perhaps  I  was  mis- 
taken. Hem!  But,  however,  to  the  point — I  think  I 
understood  that  you  could  yet  obtain  supplies,  money  I 
mean,  to  any  amount?" 

"I  can  demand  any  amount,"  replied  Mr.  Maxwell, 
"and  were  it  not  immediately  forthcoming,  the  contract 
would  then  be  broken  on  his  part:  an  event  of  which  I 
have  very  little  expectation." 

"Hem! — hem — hem,"  resumed  Bagsby,  "in  all  such 
and  the  like  cases,  my  dear  Sir,  money  has  a  great 
effect — it  is,  in  short,  one  of  those  things  without  which 
even  the  law  of  the  land  itself,  beautiful  and  simple  as 
it  is,  cannot  always  take  its  course.  But — really — 
ahem — this  is  a  very  ugly  piece  of  business!  very  ugly. 


THEGENTLEMANINBLACK.  97 

However,  we  must  not  despair.  It  is  astonishing  what 
a  free  and  judicious  application  of  money  will  some- 
times effect:  and,  as  you  don't  mind  expense,  I  really 
think  we  may  perhaps  contrive  to  pull  you  through." 

"Is  it  possible?"  exclaimed  poor  Mr.  Maxwell,  "my 
dear  Sir!  I  cannot  express  my  gratitude.  But,  I  re- 
member you  were  the  admiral's  friend — Oh,  why  did  I 
not  come  to  you  before?" 

''Never  mind,"  rejoined  Bagsby,  ''better  late  than 
never.  Eh? — Hem.  But — to  business — no — no,  I 
haven't  lived  all  these  years  to  be  frightened  at  a  little 
intricacy.  Many  a  tangled  case  have  I  unravelled. 
So,  hem — in  the  first  place,  allow  me  to  enquire  if 
there  were  any  witnesses  to  this  singular  contract?" 

"None,"  ejaculated  Mr.  Maxwell,  gasping  the  first 
breath  of  hope;  "No,  my  dear  friend,  there  was  nobody 
but  myself  and — you  know  who." 

"Excuse  me  for  interrupting  you,"  said  the  dark 
gentleman,  stepping  forward  from  a  gloomy  corner  of 
the  room,  with  his  black  coat,  black  waistcoat,  black 
Geneva  cloak,  black  bag,  black-edged  papers  tied  with 
black  tape,  and  all  the  rest  of  his  black  paraphernalia; 
*'it  may,  perhaps,  save  you  much  trouble  if,  in  this 
early  stage  of  business — ^' 

"Early,  indeed!"  exclaimed  Bagsby,  somewhat  irri- 
tated at  the  idea  of  so  good  a  thing  being  snatched  out 
of  his  hands;  "Why,  we  have  not  yet  commenced  pro- 
ceedings:— but,  I  beg  your  pardon,  Sir,  pray  take  a 

seat." 
I 


98  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

The  gentleman  in  black  sat  himself  down  at  the 
table,  and  drew  forth  from  his  black  bag  a  bundle  of 
black-edged  papers,  tied  with  black  tape,  which,  in  a 
most  business-like  way,  he  proceeded  to  untie  and  lay- 
before  him. 

"You  know,  Sir,"  said  Mr.  Maxwell,  "there  were  no 
witnesses  to  the  transaction." 

"/know  there  were,  Sir,"  replied  he  of  the  Geneva 
cloak,  with  a  malicious  smile;  "see,"  he  continued, 
showing  a  paper  to  the  lawyer,  who  immediately  dis- 
cerned two  signatures  as  of  witnesses,  which,  however^ 
he  could  not  exactly  decipher. 

"Hem!"  said  Bagsby,  adjusting  his  spectacles,  and 
giving  his  wrinkled  old  mouth  a  peculiar  twist,  which, 
as  it  had  no  particular  meaning  in  itself,  might  be  in- 
tended to  conceal  any  outward  indication  of  what  was 
passing  within.  "Ahem!  allow  me.  Sir,  just  to  run  my 
eye  over  the  paper  a  moment.  Aye,  aye — I  see — 
Charles  Maxwell — ah — hem — em — bless  me,  what  a 
cold  morning  it  is.  Pull  the  bell,  Mr.  Maxwell!  Here, 
Jerry,  my  boy,"  Ke  continued,  addressing  a  lean,  spider- 
like, daddy-long-legs  sort  of  an  old  man,  who  answered 
the  summons;  "Bring  some  coals,  Jerry — Ahem!  Let 
me  see,  where  did  I  leave  off?" 

"You  may  as  well  leave  off  where  you  are,"  observed 
the  owner  of  the  black-edged  papers;  "Keep  your  coals 
to  warm  your  chilly  old  drum-sticks  after  I'm  gone — 
I'm  not  so  green  as  to  suffer  you  to  keep  that  writing 
in  your  own  hands  after  the  fire  is  lighted." 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  99 

^*What  do  you  mean  to  insinuate,  Sir?"  asked  old 
Bagsby,  waxing  wroth;  *'A  man  of  my  standing  and  re- 
spectability, Sir!  Do  you  dare  to  say  that  I  would  be 
guilty  of  so " 

"Precisely  so,"  answered  the  other,  coolly. 

"Sir,  Sir,"  stammered  the  lawyer,  "I'd  have  you  to 
know  there  is  such  a  thing  as  law." 

"Precisely  so,"  observed  he  of  the  black  bag,  "I  do 
know  it." 

"And  justice,"  continued  Bagsby. 

"That's  more  than  you  know,"  retorted  the  other. 

"And  damages,"  roared  the  incensed  lawyer. 

'•^Your  clients  have  long  been  convinced  of  the  truth 
of  that  position,"  dryly  observed  the  dark  gentleman, 
taking  a  pinch  of  blackguard. 

Old  Bagsby's  rage  was  at  its  acme,  and  he  swore  by 
all  the  furies  and  devils  in  the  infernal  regions,  that  he 
would  commence  an  action  for  defamation  forthwith. 
But  his  antagonist  took  it  into  his  head  to  relate  a  cer- 
tain fable  concerning  a  smoky  kettle  and  its  black 
neighbour,  a  boiling  pot;  whereat  the  lawyer,  like  a 
snail,  drew  in  his  horns,  being  assisted  in  the  retiring 
movement  by  Mr.  Maxwell,  who  requested  that  his 
business  might  not  be  neglected. 

"In  mercantile  matters,  I  remember,"  said  our  hero, 
"that,  when  any  difficulty  occurred,  we  used  to  refer 
it  to  arbitration." 

"Good,"  observed  the  gentleman  in  black;  "choose 
your  own  men,  and  I'll  meet  them." 


100  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

"That's  fair,  however,"  observed  Charles  Maxwell. 

"Humph!"  said  Bagsby,  "we  must  first  find  fit  men 
for  the  purpose: — but,  ten  to  one,  they'll  make  a  bung- 
ling affair  of  it.  There's  nothing  like  regular  legal 
proceedings,  straight  forward,  as  a  body  may  say." 

"Precisely  so,"  observed  the  dark  gentleman,  "may 
say: — but  what  you  call  straight  is  as  crooked  as  my 
tail." 

To  a  reference,  however,  they  at  length  agreed. 
Mr.  Ledger  was  appointed  as  the  umpire;  and,  on  that 
day  week,  the  gentleman  in  black  was  to  give  them 
the  "first  meeting"  at  old  Bagsby's  chambers.  When 
this  matter  was  settled,  the  lawyer  ventured  to  hint 
that  he  should  find  it  necessary,  or  rather  think  it 
most  consistent  with  the  interest  of  his  client,  to  take 
the  opinion  of  counsel  on  two  or  three  points  which 
had  already  occurred  to  him;  and  as  money  was  no 
object — 

"Very  true,"  observed  Charles,  feeling  in  his  pocket, 
and  finding  he  had  omitted  to  bring  the  needful  with 
him,  "How  very  thoughtless!  However,  Sir,  directly  I 
get  home,  I'll  send  a  hundred  pound  note  or  two — " 

"Pooh!"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  taking  out  his 
black  morocco  pocket-book,  "How  many  will  you  have 
—only  say;  just  to  save  trouble,  you  know — it's  all  the 
same  between  us."  So  he  gave  Charles  Maxwell  five 
notes  of  one  hundred  pounds  each,  which  he  imme- 
diately paid  to  the  lawyer,  who  immediately  marked 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         101 

them  with  his  own  mark,  and  then  the  meeting  broke 
up. 

On  the  appointed  day,  Mr.  Ledger,  our  hero,  and 
the  gentleman  in  black,  were  all  punctual  to  a  minute* 
in  their  attendance  at  old  Bagsby's  chambers.  The 
wary  lawyer  having  taken  his  seat,  and  opened  the 
business  of  the  day,  the  gentleman  of  the  black  Geneva 
cloak  presented  his  account,  with  a  sardonic  grin,  to 
the  individual  who  had  expressed  his  inclination  to  set- 
tle it  Ledger  cast  his  eye,  in  a  hurried  and  agitated 
manner,  at  the  amonnt,  and,  addressing  himself  to 
Maxwell,  inquired  if  it  could  possibly  be  correct. 

The  poor  gentleman  cast  his  dim  and  floating  eyes 
up  and  down  two  or  three  sides  of  the  tremendous  pa- 
per, which  was  carried  over  and  over  and  over,  with 
dismal  tautology;  he  could  deny  nothing;  and  many  of 
the  items  he  but  too  well  remembered.  His  heart 
sank  within  him. 

"Give  me  leave,"  said  Bagsby,  stretching  forth  his 
lean  arm. 

"By  all  means,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black. 

"Don't  be  alarmed,  Mr.  Maxwell,"  continued  old 
Bagsby.  "I  have  no  doubt  we  shall  pull  you  through," 
and  he  prosed  a  few  minutes  over  the  account,  whilst 
his  opponent  sat  smiling  most  contemptuously. 

"You  don't  specify  here,"  said  old  Bagsby,  "in  what 
manner  these  various  sums  were  paid;  whether  in  spe- 
cie, or  bills,  or  notes." 

"Pshaw!"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  that's  per- 
I  2 


102  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

fectly  immaterial;    the   amount    is  stated  explicitly- 
enough." 

"I  beg  your  pardon,  Sir,"  rejoined  the  lawyer,  "it 
makes  all  the  difference  in  the  world." 

"Bank  notes  are  a  legal  tender,"  quoth  he  of  the 
black  Geneva  cloak. 

"No  doubt;  but  we  are  not  met  here  to  discuss  rig- 
marole theories  about  the  paper  currency,  which  nei- 
ther you  nor  I  can  make  head  or  tail  of." 

"Precisely  so;  I  confess  myself  bothered  on  that  point. 
It  is  most  delightfully  mystical." 

"Well,  well,  to  business,"  said  the  man  of  law,  some- 
what testily.  "Do  you  mean  to  give  us  a  clear,  speci- 
fic account,  or  not,  with  the  dates  of  payment,  number 
of  the  notes  paid,  and  every  particular?  If  not,  let  me 
tell  you"— 

"Pooh! — pooh!"  replied  the  other,  "it  is  not  worth 
while  for  you  and  I  to  quarrel  about  a  few  sheets  of 
paper."  So  saying,  he  dipped  his  hand  into  the  huge 
black  bag,  which  he  had  placed  on  the  ground,  beween 
his  legs,  and  drew  from  thence  an  immense  bundle  of 
black-edged  papers,  tied  with  black  tape,  which  he 
then  threw  across  the  table,  exclaiming,  "There,  there 
it  is — made  up  to  yesterday.  I  hope  that  will  satisfy 
you." 

The  veteran  of  the  law  conned  over  some  of  the 
items,  hemming  and  coughing  as  he  went  along;  and 
then,  without  uttering  a  word,  arose  and  placed  the 
bundle  in  his  iron  chest,  which  he  carefully  locked; 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         103 

then  put  the  key  in  his  pocket,  and  resumed  his  seat  at 
the  table. 

"Well,  Sir,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  who  had 
been  attentively  watching  him,  "what  are  we  to  do 
next?" 

"We  must  proceed  to  business,"  replied  old  Bagsby, 
and  ringing  a  little  silver  bell,  that  stood  beside  him,  in 
came  old  Jerry. 

"Jerry,  my  boy,"  said  his  master,  shew  in  that  gen- 
tleman from  the  city." 

"From  the  city!"  exclaimed  Ledger,  "who  is  he? 
Remember,  Mr.  Bagsby,  I  should  not  like  to  be  seen" 


"Never  fear,"  said  the  lawyer;  "shew  him  up,  Jerry." 
Accordingly  a  well  dressed  young  man  was  ushered  in- 
to the  room. 

"Well,  Mr.  Crabseye,"  said  old  Bagsby,  "are  you  as 
confident  as  ever?" 

"It  is  impossible  we  should  be  mistaken,"  was  the  re- 
ply. 

"This  gentleman,"  continued  the  lawyer,  laying  his 
spectacles  on  the  table,  and  looking  triumphantly 
around  him,  "this  gentleman  comes  from  the  Bank  of 
England,  and  has  examined  the  five  one-hundred  pound 
notes  which  you,  Sir,"  looking  at  the  gentleman  in 
black,  *'paid  to  my  client  here,  this  day  week;  which 
he  immediately  paid  to  me,  and  which  I  immediately 
marked.  This  gentleman  pronounces  them  to  be  for- 
geries." 


104  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN   BLACK. 

''There  is  not  a  shadow  of  a  doubt  thereof,"  observed 
Mr.  Crabseye. 

"Shew  me  the  difference  between  one  of  them,  and 
one  of  your  own  issuing,"  said  he  of  the  black  Geneva 
cloak,  which  moved  not  a  wrinkle  on  the  present  occa- 
sion. 

Pardon  me,  Sir,"  replied  Mr.  Crabseye,  <'it  is  well  we 
have  some  private  mark  that  such  gentlemen  as  you 
are  not  exactly  aware  of: — for  upon  my  word,  as  it  is, 
it  would  sometimes  puzzle  the  devil  himself  to  tell  the 
difference." 

"Precisely  so,"  observed  the  gentleman  in  black. 
"Well,  Sir,  inquired  the  lawyer,  "you  don't  mean  to 
deny  paying  those  five  notes  to  Mr.  Maxwell?" 

"Not  f ,"  was  the  reply. 

"Then,  Mr.  Crabseye,  you  know  I  have  your  affida- 
vit, aye — here  it  is — 'I,  Micros  Crabseye' — aye — and 
the  more  needful  papers  too" — and  again  the  old  law- 
yer tingled  his  ancient  bell;  and  again  popped  in  the 
head  of  his  ancient  Jerry,  who  exchanged  a  significant 
nod  with  his  master,  and  drew  himself  back  again. 
Then,  anon,  came  stalking  in,  a  portly-looking  man, 
followed  by  two  athletic  figures,  who  looked  most  mar- 
vellously as  though  they  could  not  understand  a  joke. 

"There,  gentlemen,  is  your  prisoner,"  moved  Mr. 
Crabseye,  and  old  Bagsby  seconded  the  motion,  both 
pointing  to  the  gentleman  with  the  black  coat,  waist- 
coat, Geneva  cloak,  bag,  and  various  other  black  ap- 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         105 

pendages,  who  sat  wonderfully  composed,  after  his  first 
fidget. 

The  officers  of  justice  proceeded  to  handcuff  their 
prisoner,  who  smiled  thereat  with  a  most  supercilious 
smile;  and,  when  they  had  completed  their  operations, 
begged  that  they  would  do  the  same  kind  office  for  his 
friend  Mr.  Maxwell,  who  for  a  series  of  years,  as  he 
could  prove  by  creditable  witnesses,  and  even  by  Mr. 
Crabseye  himself,  had  been  in  the  habit  of  passing 
forged  notes.  His  poor  victim  felt  as  though  his  death 
warrant  was  signed,  for  he  knew  that  at  his  own  house 
many  would  be  found,  and  that  all  his  tradespeople 
must,  with  one  accord,  bring  forth  witnesses  against 
him,  if  they  produced  any  of  the  notes  he  had  paid. 
Even  old  Bagsby  twisted  about  his  lower  lij^nd  jaw, 
most  portentously,  for  many  seconds;  but  recovering  his 
composure,  exclaimed,  "Don't  be  alarmed,  my  dear  Mr. 
Maxwell;  1  told  you  we  should  be  able  to  pull  you 
through  this  business,  ugly  as  it  is."  Then,  turning  to 
the  pinioned  gentleman,  he  continued,  **what  you  say, 
Sir,  may  be  very  true,  for  aught  I  know;  but  we  have 
forms,  Sir,  forms  of  law,  which  must  be  attended  to." 

^'Precisely  so;  I  perceive  it,"  and  he  glanced  at  his 
bolted  arms. 

"In  the  first  place,  you  must  take  your  oath." 

"I — whati"  exclaimed  he  of  the  black  bag. 

"Your  oath,  Sir,"  resumed  the  lawyer,  and  here  is  a 
Testament." 

The  gentleman  in  black,  hereat,  drew  his  hands 


106  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

from  their  cuffs  as  easily  as  from  a  pair  of  gloves,  took 
a  pinch  of  blackguard,  and  said  that  if  that  were  the 
case,  he  must,  from  a  scruple  of  conscience  respecting 
swearing,  decline  to  proceed  any  further  in  the  affair. 
He  then  burst  into  what  seemed  to  Mr.  Crabseye  and 
his  satellites  to  be,  under  existing  circumstances,  a  most 
unseemly  fit  of  merriment  and  laughter,  swearing, 
(notwithstanding  his  recent  scruples,)  that  old  Bagsby 
was  a  boy  after  his  own  heart,  and  wishing  he  might 
live  to  be  Lord  Chancellor! 

(?  "Gentlemen!"  said  the  man  of  sables,  after  his  unsea- 
sonable mirth  had  exhausted  itself,  "I  am  sorry  that 
this  meeting  has  been  so  unpleasantly  broken  up.  "i 
must,  of  course,  attend  these  good  people  (pointing  to 
the  officqige)  for  the  present: — but,  make  your  own  ap- 
pointment for  the  final  arrangement  of  what  we  first 
met  to  discuss.  You  will  manage  it,  Bagsby.  Cras 
aut  cum  velles — sed  ut  redirem  hdc  node  Jleri  non  potest." 
Which,  fair  reader,  simply  means,  that  though  he 
he  could  not  return  that  evening,  he  would  attend  old 
Bagsby  on  the  morrow,  or  at  any  other  time;  and  hav- 
ing thus  spoken,  he  was  led  out  of  the  room  by  his  at- 
tendant genii. 

No.  sooner  was  the  door  closed  upon  them,  than 
Bagsby  congratulated  his  client  on  their  success  so  far; 
''Never  fear.  Sir,"  said  he,  "we  shall  pull  you  through 
this  business,  ugly  as  it  is.  I've  another  poser  or  two 
for  old  Sootikins.    But  first,  my  dear  Sir,  these  notes, 


;.--a 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         107 

you  see,  are  worth  nothing,  and  those  you  have  at 
home" — 

"Shall  be  destroyed  this  instant,"  cried  our  hero, 
snatching  his  hat. 

"Stop — stop  a  moment,  my  dear  Sir.  If  you  do, 
how  are  we  to  proceed?  For  money,  you  know,  con- 
stitutes, as  one  may  say,  the  sinews  of  the  law." 

"Never  fear,"  observed  Mr.  Ledger,  "I've  brought 
my  cheque-book  with  me." 

"What's  that?"  inquired  Mr.  Maxwell. 

"Lead  us  not  into  temptation,  but  deliver  us  from 
evil!"  exclaimed  Mr.  Ledger.  "To  see  how  the  enemy 
may  'pack  up,'  as  it  were,  a  man's  mind  in  darkness 
and  ignorance!  That  a  British  merchant  should  not 
know  what  a  cheque-book  is!" 

"Oh!  aye!  I  remember  now,"  said  Mr.  Maxwell, 
"it's  one  of  the  books  we  used  to  hire  the  clerks  to 
write  in."  J|^t?  ^ 

Mr.  Ledger  sighed,  but  was  too  much  a  man  of  busi- 
ness to  leave  old  Bagsby  without  presenting  him  with 
one  of  the  magic  leaves  from  his  book,  which  was  re- 
ceived most  graciously.  He  then  accompanied  his  un- 
fortunate friend  and  partner  to  his  elegant  mansion  in 
Portland  Place,  the  furniture  and  entire  arrangement 
of  which  paralysed  him  with  astonishment. 

They  destroyed  the  forged  notes,  and  Mr.  Maxwell 
was  furnished  with  a  cheque-book,  and  instructed  in 
the  use  thereof;  which  appeared  so  easy,  that  he  won- 
dered why  he  should  ever  have  preferred  any  other 


108  TIIE    GENTLEMAN   IN   BLACK. 

way  of  raising  money,  to  the  real  value  of  which  his 
unlimited  supplies  for  so  many  years  had  utterly  blind- 
ed him. 

He  once  more  repaired  to  old  Bagsby's  chambers. — 
That  worthy  practitioner  spake  at  great  length  about 
a  great  variety  of  papers,  parchments,  and  deeds,  with 
a  greater  variety  of  hard  names  than  it  would  be  worth 
while  to  enumerate  on  the  present  occasion;  but  they 
were  all  necessary^ — at  least  so  old  Bagsby  said. 

Another  meeting  was  appointed,  and  as  before,  the 
high  contracting  parties  met  at  old  Bagsby's  office. 

After  the  usual  salutations,  the  gentleman  in  black 
begged  to  thank  the  lawyer  for  having  given  him  a 
view  of  the  inside  of  Newgate,  *'at  the  doors  of  which,'' 
he  remarked,  "we  are  generally  much  incommoded  by 
the  ejaculation  of  certain  words  and  supplications  ex- 
cessively unpleasant  to  our  ears — many  of  my  oldest 
friends  among  you,  whapj^  should  never  have  suspect- 
ed of  praying,  have  there  been  visited  with  such  a 
paroxysm  of  religious  feeling,  that  one  would  imagine 
they  had  served  a  regular  apprenticeship  to  craw-thump- 
ing and  psalm-singing.  We  wicA;-name  them  the  doors  of 
repentance.  But  I  beg  your  pardon,  let  us  lose  no  time, 
for  I  have  some  particular  business  on  the  Stock  Ex- 
change to-day — we  have  a  new  company  or  two  Start- 
ing, and  have  a  scheme  for  a  train-road  and  cast-iron 
pavement,  and  locomotive  engines  of  fifty  legion  power, 

traversing  between  us  and allow  me  to  present  you 

Vi^ith  a  ^prospectus,'  Mr.  Bagsby." 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  109 

'•'I  beg  your  pardon,  Sir,"  replied  the  lawyer,  I  don't 
admire  such  presents — hem!  I'd  much  rather  not  have 
any  share  in  your  concern — ahem!  I  beg  leave  respect- 
fully to  decline." 

"Well,  well— of  that  hereafter,"  said  he  of  the  black 
Geneva  cloak,  "so,  to  the  matter  in  question.  Have 
you  any  thing  to  propose?" 

"Why,  my  good  Sir,"  replied  old  Bagsby,  "we  have 
been  examining  your  account  against  my  worthy  client 
here,  an-d,  really — upon  my  honour — I  must  confess  it 
all  appears  perfectly  clear — ahem!  It  is  an  ugly  piece 
of  business." 

**It  is  quite  correct,  Sir,  I'll  warrant,"  said  the  other, 
rubbing  his  hands,  and  then  applying  himself  to  his 
black  snuff-box. 

"Ahem!"  continued  Bagsby,  "Ahem!  In  the  first 
place,  Sir,  we  take  exception  to  every  item  paid  by 
you  in  forged  notes,  which  form,  with  some  trivial  ex- 
ceptions, the  whole  of  what  my  client  has  received  in 
England." 

"Do  you  call  this /air?"  asked  the  other,  "he  might 
have  had  gold  if  he  had  chosen." 

"It  is  legal — sound  law,'*  replied  Bagsby,  firmly,  "not 
a  penny  of  that  will  we  pay. — Bring  your  action,  we 
are  ready." 

The  gentleman  in  black  employed  himself  for  a  mi- 
nute in  looking  over  his  own  copy  of  our  hero's  account, 
where  he  beheld  sums  amply  sufficient,  he  doubted  not, 
for  his  purpose,  which  had  been  advanced  to  the  unfor- 


110  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

tunate  man  in  louis,  napoleons,  florins,  crowns^  dueats, 
&,c.  &c. ,  among  which  those  paid  for  antique  statues, 
paintings,  vases,  medals,  &c.  &c.,  were  delightfully 
prominent.  ^ 

"We  will,"  said  he,  at  length,  "leave  the  legality  of 
my  paper  money  to  be  discussed  hereafter — or  even, 
for  the  sake  of  argument,  allow  your  position;  what 
have  you  to  say  to  the  rest,  advanced  in  hard  cash,  to 
the  tune  of  some  million  or  so  of  your  pounds,  in  France, 
Switzerland,  Holland,  Germany,  and  Italy?' 

"This  comes,  as  1  said  before,"  ejaculated  Mr. 
Ledger,  "of  visiting  Popish  countries." 

Let  me  tell  you.  Sir,"  replied  Bagsby,  "I  have  strong 
reason  to  suspect  that  the  whole  were  of  base  coin- 
age." 

"Prove  it,"  quoth  the  gentleman  in  black,  in  a  tone 
of  calm  defiance. 

The  lawyer  sat  humming  over  the  lots  of  parch- 
ments before  him,  like  a  bee  buzzing  over  and  bussing 
a  cluster  of  flowers,  dipping  his  proboscis  alternately 
into  each,  but  settling  on  none.  This  disagreeable 
silence  was  broken  by  Mr.  Ledger,  who  addressed  the 
gentleman  in  black  in  a  manner  which  somewhat 
startled  his  dinginess.  "Sir,"  said  he,  "you  may  consider 
the  matter  as  settled.  I  hold  myself  responsible  to  you 
for  the  amount;  and  my  word.  Sir,  is  sufficient.  I  am 
willing  now  to  give  you  a  cheque  for  half  the  sum,  and 
the  remainder  shall  be  paid  as  soon  as  my  clerks,  with 
Mr.  Maxwell,  and  our  mutual  friend  Mr.  Bagsby,  shall 
be  satisfied  of  the  accuracy  of  your  account." 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  HI 

*'Upon  my  word,  Sir,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black, 
while  his  countenance  assumed  a  decidedly  bluish  tint, 
and  for  the  first  time  he  had  recourse  to  his  black  cut- 
glass  smelling  bottle  in  a  black  ebony  case.  "Upon  my 
word,  Mr.  Ledger — really.  Ahem!  Your  way  of  doing 
business  is  so  different  from  what  I  am  accustomed  to, 
that,  really,  upon  my  darkness,  I  don't  exactly  under- 
stand it."  And  again  he  put  his  smelling  bottle  to  his 
Bose. 

"We'll  pay  you  off  and  close  the  account— draw  a 
line  under  your  name,  and  so  cut  the  connexion  for 
ever,"  said  Ledger. 

"My  dearest  Sir,  my  much  honoured  and  highly 
respected  friend!"  whispered  old  Bagsby,  "are  you  seri- 
ous? can  you  positively  raise  the  wind  to  such  a  tune? 
almost  a  million  and  a  half?" 

"I  have  said  the  word,"  replied  Mr.  Ledger,  "write 
out  a  receipt  in  full  of  all  demands." 

The  gentleman  in  black  hereat  waxed  extremely 
fidgetty,  and  felt  somewhat  like  a  huge  conger  eel 
which  the  tide  has  left  in  shallow  water,  among  rocks, 
and  which  is  attempting  to  wriggle  itself  out.  Mr.  Max- 
well's heart  was  full,  and  so  he  spake  next,  addressing 
his  good  friend  and  partner  Mr.  Ledger,  thanking  him 
most  sincerely  for  the  extraordinary  offer  that  he  had 
made;  but  declining  altogether  to  accept  thereof,  as,  let 
the  consequence  be  to  him  what  it  might,  he  was  de- 
termined not  to  involve  his  friend  in  utter  ruin. 

"Pshaw,"  replied  Mr.  Ledger,  "if  you  had  attended 


112  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

the  counting-house  but  once  a  year,  just  to  look  at  <the 
balance  sheet,'  you  would  know  better;  but  this  comes 
of  going  abroad,  and  travelling  in  Popish  countries. 
What  do  you  suppose  I've  been  about  with  your  share 
of  the  concern  all  this  while?  Make  yourself  easy,  my 
dear  Sir,  for  after  this  is  all  settled,  we  shall  still  be 
found,  like  the  beginning  of  our  old  friend's  parchment 
clauses,  'always  provided,  nevertheless;'  "  and  the 
worthy  old  merchant,  in  the  pride  and  joy  of  his  heart, 
laughed  at  his  own  joke,  and  gave  a  careless  glance  to- 
wards the  gentleman  in  black,  who  had  been  employed 
with  his  blackguard  and  his  black  smelling  bottle, 
snuffing  and  smelling,  to  hide  his  disappointed  maligni- 
ty. But,  like  the  conger  eel  aforesaid,  he  soon  shifted 
his  position,  and  addressing  the  lawyer,  said,  "You'll 
please  to  observe.  Sir,  that  I  have  not  given  up  my 
claim  to  the  bank  notes;  I  merely  waived  the  discus- 
sion." 

^'Remember  Newgate,"  replied  old  Bagsby. 

"I  do,"  said  the  other,  recovering  himself;  "and  have 
no  sort  of  objection  to  pass  another  night  there,  I  felt 
myself  quite  at  home,  I  assure  you.  But,"  he  continued* 
turning  to  Mr.  Ledger,  "do  you  mean  to  pay  me  for  the 
notes?" 

The  old  merchant  now,  in  his  turn,  looked  somewhat 
confused;  but  old  Bagsby  took  up  the  cudgels,  and  re- 
plied, "/^e  will  do  nothing  of  the  kind." 

"I  make  my  demand,"  continued  the  other,  "and  if 
it  be  not  complied  with,  you  must  abide  the  conse- 
quences." 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         113 

"And  so  must  you,"  rejoined  Bagsby;  "let  me  recom- 
mend you  to  accept,  my  good  friend,  the  worthy  Mr. 
Ledger's  offer." 

"I  want  none  of  your  advice,"  said  he  of  the  sables. 

"Once  more,  as  the  mutual  friend  of  both  parties," 
continued  the  lawyer,  "I  request  you  to  accede  to  so 
fair  and  honourable  a  proposition." 

"It  is  neither  the  one  nor  the  other,"  said  the  gentle- 
man in  black,  "1  will  never  agree  to  it;"  and  he  looked 
round  with  an  assumed  air  of  carelessness  in  his  turn. 
The  discussion  was  like  the  game  of  see-saw,  one  up 
and  the  other  down — but  old  Bagsby  had  yet,  as  he 
whispered  Mr.  Ledger,  his  "great  gun"  to  fire.  Where- 
fore, "attention"  being  called,  he  pulled  off*  his  specta- 
cles, hemmed  three  particularly  loud  hems,  stiffened 
himself  as  near  to  a  perpendicular  as  might  be,  screw- 
ed up  his  courage  to  the  *'sticking.place,"  and,  in  a 
voice  as  stentorian  as  his  shrivelled,  whistling  old  pipe 
could  compass,  (sic  ore  locutus  est)  thus  spake  he  to 
the  opposite  party. 

"Then,  Sir,  you  must  abide  the  consequences." 

"With  all  my  heart,"  replied  the  other  with  a  sneer; 
"do  your  worst." 

"Very  well.  Sir,"  said  old  Bagsby;  "then  listen!  I 
shall  immediately  throw  the  whole  business  into  Chan- 
cery." 

"Into  where!"  cried  the  gentleman  in  black,  starting 
upon  his  legs,  upsetting  his  black  snuff'-box  and  black- 
guard, letting  fall  his  black  smelling-bottle,  oversetting 
k2 


114  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

his  black  bag  and  disarranging  his  blaek-edged  papers, 
while  his  black  hair  stood  erect  upon  his  head,  and  his 
blackGeneva  cloak  swelled  out  rigidly  behind,  as  though 
thrust  forth  and  supported  by  a  mop-stick. 

"Into  Chancery,"  repeated  old  Bagsby,  gravely;  "Mr. 
Ledger  will  pay  the  money  into  Court." 

"From  whence  it  will  never  come  out  in  my  time," 
roared  the  gentleman  in  black,  like  a  lion  taken  in  the 
toils.    ^'No,  no — I  accept  the  merchant's  offer." 

"It's  too  late  now,"  observed  old  Bagsby,  sorting  out 
some  papers;  "I  expect  a  Chancery  barrister  here  im- 
mediately." 

"Then  I'm  off,"  said  the  other,  **but  remember.  Sir," 
he  continued,  turning  to  Mr.  Ledger,  "Your  word  is 
past." 

"Aye,  aye,"  replied  the  wary  old  merchant,  "and- 
you  shall  be  paid  too — that's  my  way — always  better 
pay  money  than  go  to  law  about  it.  Know  the  worst 
of  it  then.  But,  remember,  a  receipt  in  full  of  all  de- 
mands." 

"Aye,  aye,"  said  the  other,  whose  nervous  system 
was  dismally  affected,  "I'll  sign  any  thing." 

Accordingly,  much  to  the  surprise  and  gratification 
of  our  hero,  Mr.  Maxwell,  the  venerable  old  merchant 
produced  his  cheque-book,  and  wrote  a  cheque  for  half 
the  amount;  and  then  with  exchequer  bills,  bonds,  and 
a  tolerable  variety  of  shares  in  mines,  railways,  gas- 
lights, steam-washing,  shaving,  shearing,  carding,  and 
shuffling  companies,  (in  most  of  which  the  gentleman 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         115 

who  was  so  partial  to  a  pinch  of  the  blackguard,  had 
already  a  share)  he  made  up  the  other  moiety.  A  re- 
gularly verbose  receipt  in  full  of  all  demands,  was 
drawn  up  by  old  Bagsby,  and  signed  by  the  gentleman 
in  black.  The  bonds  of  sinning  were  then  rent  asun- 
der, and  committed  to  the  flames,  and,  once  more,  Mr. 
Maxwell  breathed  freely,  as  a  free  Christian  ought,  and 
walked  arm-and-arm  with  his  partner  into  the  city. 
The  gentleman  in  black  pocketed  his  recovered  trea- 
sure, (minus  about  live  hundred  pounds,  which  Bagsby 
deducted  for  stamps,  &c.,  due  from  the  receiver,  and 
with  which  his  conscience  would  not  allow  him  to 
charge  his  clients,)  and  with  it  went  upon  his  favour- 
ite haunt,  the  Stock  Exchange,  where,  report  says,  he 
laid  it  out  -well,  by  enriching  some  "Sir  Balaams"  of 
the  present  day,  and  giving  others  the  furor  for  becom- 
ing suddenly  opulent. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

While  the  transactions  related  in  the  last  chapter 
were  in  progress  in  London,  the  Comte  D'Ormalle,  bet- 
ter known  perhaps  to  the  reader  as  Louis  Desonges, 
was  rusticating  at  his  chateau  on  the  banks  of  the 
Loire:  and  had  become  as  dull  and  melancholy  as  it 
was  possible  for  a  Frenchman  to  be. 

One  evening,  being  reduced  absolutely  "au  deses- 
poir,"  he  was  leaning  upon  the  battlement  of  an  ancient 
terrace  which  overlooked  the  adjacent  country  for 
many  a  league;  and  his  eye  rested  upon  a  fresh  object 
at  the  entrance  of  the  neighbouring  town.  ''AVhat  can 
it  be?"  thought  he.  In  his  frame  of  mind  any  sort  of 
excitement  was  a  momentary  relief:  so  he  went  for  his 
telescope:  and  it  exhibited  to  him  a  cross  of  the  mission, 
recently  erected  in  the  place  of  one  which  had  been 
destroyed  at  the  revolution.  He  gazed  for  awhile 
thereon,  and  then  threw  himself  upon  a  seat,  and  be- 
came absorbed  in  thought  for  the  space  of  at  least  five 
minutes.  "I  have  it,"  he  cried  at  length,  "I  will  send 
for  him  immediately;"  and,  starting  from  his  reverie, 
he  walked  towards  the  chateau,  for  the  purpose  of 
writing  a  note  to  request  a  visit  from  the  abbe  of  the 
adjacent  monastery. 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         117 

"It  would  be  a  useless  exposure  of  yourself,"  observed 
the  gentleman  in  black,  advancing  from  a  recess  where- 
in the  statue  of  some  sylvan  deity  was  placed,  "It  could 
not  possibly  have  any  other  effect  than  frightening  the 
old  bigot  out  of  his  senses." 

"Monsieur!"  said  Comte  Louis,  somewhat  sternly,  "I 
am  unused  to  interruptions  of  this  kind.  Had  I  wish- 
ed for  your  advice,  I  probably  might  have  requested 
the  honour." 

"Monsieur  Le  Comte,"  replied  the  gentleman  in 
black,  "I  perceive  my  error,  and  beg  to  apologise;  but 
the  fact  is,  I  have  lately  been  in  England;  and  really 
one's  manners  are  apt  to  be  influenced  by  the  sort  of 
society  with  which  one  mixes.  No  one  can  dislike 
their,  what  they  call,  "straight  forward"  manner  more 
than  myself.  I  beg  ten  thousand  pardons.  I  hope  I 
have  the  honour  to  see  your  Excellency  in  good  health, 
and  that  the  amiable  Comtesse  and  your  dear  young 
people  are  well." 

Although  there  was  little  in  all  this,  yet  there  was 
something  so  graceful  in  the  manner  of  the  dark  elder- 
ly gentleman,  who,  by  the  by,  appeared  not  a  day  older 
than  when  they  first  became  acquainted,  that  the  Comte 
changed  his  tone,  and  politely  requested  him  to  walk 
into  the  chateau.  Indeed  there  arose  a  vague  hope 
within  him,  that  he  might  be  able  to  make  some  sort  of 
fresh  agreement,  and  mystify  his  dark  ally;  for  he  had, 
at  one  period,  dipped  a  little  into  the  arts  of  Gallic  di- 
plomacy.    But  it  seems  that  he  was  not  an  adept,  or 


118  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

else  that  the  gentleman  in  black  was  mor^  deeply- 
versed  in  the  science;  for,  after  half  an  hour's  conver- 
sation, he  still,  like  Shylock,  seemed  averse  to  speaking 
of  any  terms  not  specified  in  the  bond. 

**Then,"  said  Comte  Louis,  "I  shall  instantly  apply 
to  the  church,  for  there  is  no  time  to  spare." 

The  gentleman  in  black  shrugged  up  his  shoulders 
and  took  snuff,  and  politely  handed  his  black  box  to 
the  Comte,  who  had  no  sooner  partaken  of  its  contents, 
than  he  remembered  some  very  fine  old  hock  which 
was  in  his  cellar:  and  forthwith  the  two  allies  began  a 
sort  of  carouse,  and  the  Comte's  spirits  became  unusu- 
ally elevated. 

"You  may  rely  upon  it,"  said  the  dark  gentleman, 
"that  good  old  wine  is  the  most  certain  cure  for  lowness 
of  spirits.  I  really  feel  myself  much  better  already. 
Don't  you?' 

"Why,"  replied  the  Comte,  "I  cannot  say  but  what 
I  feel  a  sort  of  a  kind  of  a " 

"Precisely  so,"  added  the  gentleman  in  black,  "and 
so,  as  you  were  saying  about  the  Comtesse " 

"Excuse  me,"  said  Louis,  "I  did  not  mention  her 
name." 

"It's  all  the  same  thing,"  observed  the  other,  ''you 
were  thinking  of  her.  The  bottle  stands  with  you! 
The  fact  is,  that  she  has  all  the  benefit  of  the  contract. 
You  really  don't  spend  anything  yourself;  and  it  would 
save  a  vast  deal  of  trouble  if  she  were  able  to  make 
use  of  the  black  morocco  pocket-book  herself.    If  you 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  119 

will  obtain  her  signature  to  this"  (here  he  produced  a 
small  black-edged  scroll,  tied  with  black  tape)  "it 
might  be  a  great  accommodation  to  all  parties.  But 
the  bottle  stands  with  you!  It's  a  mere  matter  of  form, 
but  really  it  would  oblige  me:  and  to  convince  you  of 
my  friendship,  I  pledge  myself  to  require  not  a  single 
moment  of  sin  from  you  for  the  next  seven  years,  if  you 
will  merely  do  me  the  favour  to  tell  her  to  sign  her 
name  just  here.     Nothing  can  be  more  liberal!" 

"Seven  years!"  repeated  the  Comte,  "hem — seven 
years — there's  something  in  that!"  and  he  filled  his 
glass  and  tossed  it  off.  "Seven  years — eh — well!  Let 
me  see,  what  is  it  that  I  am  to  do?" 

"Nothing  more,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black, 
"than,  as  she  is  your  wife,  to  tell  her  to  put  her  name 
to  this  paper." 

"You  may  as  well  put  it  in  your  pocket  again,"  said 
the  Comte,  sighing,  "she  has  not  done  anything  that  I 
have  told  her  to  do  for  these  ten  years." 

"Bah!"  ejaculated  the  gentleman  in  black,  "that 
comes  of  your  never  refusing  to  pay  her  bills.  Break 
down  her  carriages,  and  get  somebody  to  burn  her  lace; 
and  then  stop  the  supplies,  and  I  will  engage — The 
bottle  stands  with  you!  I'll  engage  that  she'll  sign 
anything  rather  than  be  without  those  indispensable 
articles." 

"Hem,"  said  the  Comte,  "there  may  be  something  in 
that — (hiccup)— You  are  a  devilish,  knowing,  extraor- 
dinary, dark,  old,  elderly,  gentleman,  and  I  protest  that 
the  idea  of  the  lace  is  excellent!  I'll  burn  it  all  myself." 


120  THE   GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

"And  ril  engage  to  find  plenty  more,"  observed  the 
gentleman  of  the  black  silk  purse,  "for,  to  tell  the 
truth,  I  was  the  original  inventor.  She'll  not  be  the 
first  woman  whom  I  have  caught  in  that  sort  of  a  net. 
Ha,  ha!  You'll  excuse  the  pun!" 

The  Comte's  recollection  was  not  now  perfectly 
clear:  but  it  seems  that  he  took  the  black-edged  paper, 
and  put  it  into  his  black  morocco  pocket-book,  and, 
shortly  after,  fell  asleep. 

The  next  day  he  departed  for  Paris;  and  on  his  arri- 
val, was  informed  that  the  Comtesse  had  joined  a  party 
of  her  father's  friends  in  an  excursion  to  Fontainebleau. 
Thus  compelled  to  remain  in  inaction,  he  began  to  feel 
doubtful  whether  his  once  mild  and  gentle  Emilie 
might  be  persuaded  to  favour  him  with  her  signature. 
He  felt  that  she  was  an  altered  being,  and  little 
like  the  lovely  partner  of  his  walks  by  Lake  Leman's 
side:  but  there  arose  within  him  a  painful  conviction, 
that  he  had  not  been  altogether  without  change  himself; 
and  then  he  began  to  indulge  in  reminiscences,  which 
ended  in  the  ejaculation,  "Poor  Emilie!"  and  he  re- 
solved, at  all  events,  to  delay  his  intended  solicitations 
for  her  signature,  and  see,  in  the  meanwhile,  if  any- 
thing could  be  accomplished,  in  his  favour,  by  the 
church. 

The  summons  of  M.  Le  Comte  D'Ormalle  had  not 
long  left  his  hotel,  ere  there  appeared  before  him,  in 
consequence  thereof,  "a  little,  round,  fat,  oily  man  of 
God,"  Dodun  by  name,  a  zealous  ecclesiastic,  who  was 


THB  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         121 

always  happy  to  wait  upon  both  poor  and  rich,  parti- 
cularly the  latter.  He  entered  Comte  Louis's  apart- 
ment with  a  most  benignant  and  refreshing  smile,  and 
bowed  as  gracefully  as  it  was  possible  for  such  a  droll 
little  body  to  bow;  and  then,  obeying  the  waving  of 
the  Comte's  hand,  deposited  himself  upon  a  chair.  But 
he  had  not  sat  long  thereon,  listening  to  Louis's  account 
of  the  past,  ere  his  "too  solid  flesh"  began,  as  it  were, 
to  "melt  and  dissolve  itself  into  a  dew;"  and,  withal,  he 
trembled  exceedingly,  for  he,  like  old  Bagsby,  consi- 
dered the  thing  to  be  "ah  ugly  piece  of  business." 

He,  however,  had  been  brought  up  in  a  very  differ- 
ent school  from  that  in  which  the  crafty  old  lawyer 
had  acquired  his  resources,  and  was  utterly  unable  to 
divine  how  the  Comte  might  be  "pulled  through."  So 
he  sat,  gasping  for  awhile,  looking  unutterable  things, 
and  then  rose  up,  or  rather  slid  down,  from  his  chair, 
and  commenced  a  retreat  by  no  means  so  graceful  as 
his  entrance. 

"The  old  fellow  was  right,"  sighed  Comte  Louis  to 
himself,  "I  have  merely  frightened  the  bigot  out  of  his 
senses,  and  rendered  myself  no  sort  of  service — ^but, 
apropos — "  and  he  recollected  that,  in  all  former  diffi- 
culties, gold  had  effected  his  desired  purpose.  So  he 
forthwish  apologized  to  the  poor  ecclesiastic  for  having 
introduced  the  subject  without  a  proper  prelude;  and 
told  him  that  he  could  not,  of  course,  expect  the  inter- 
ference of  the  church,  before  he  should  prove  himself 
a  dutiful  son;  and  moreover,  that,  as  he  had  immense 

L 


122  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

sums  at  his  command,  he  thought  that  the  erection  of 
a  church,  or  an  abbey,  or  the  redemption  of  some  of 
the  church  lands,  might  be  acceptable  as  a  token  of  his 
sincerity. 

At  these  words  the  retrograde  movements  of  the 
worthy  priest  were  suspended,  and  he  seemed  much 
impressed  by  such  evidences  of  sincere  contrition:  and, 
anon,  he  ventured  to  resume  his  seat,  and  the  Comte 
prevailed  upon  him  to  eat  a  biscuit,  and  take  a  glass  of 
champagne,  and  to  become  the  bearer  of  a  few  rou- 
leaux "pour  les  pauvres.*' 

Poor  Dodun  was  unused  to  champagne;  he  had 
never  before  been  the  bearer  of  so  much  money,  nor 
ever  before  sat  tete  a  tete  with  a  peer  of  France,  or  any 
rnan  capable  of  building  abbies  and  cathedrals  at  his 
own  expense;  and,  certainly  he  had  never  before 
heard  such  a  tale  about  the  gentleman  in  black.  Each 
of  these  causes  might  have  wrought  somewhat  upon 
him;  but  their  united  effects  produced  a  singular  con- 
fusion of  intellect,  insomuch  that  he  took  leave  of  the 
Comte  with  many  expressions  of  respect,  and  a  series  of 
rolling  bows,  during  the  enactment  of  which  he  averred 
that  the  power  of  the  church  was  immense;  that  he 
was  an  unworthy  and  humble  son  thereof:  but,  yet,  M. 
le  Comte  might  rely  upon  him;  a-nd  that,  in  short,  he 
would  repeat  his  visit  on  the  morrow. 

The  bewildered  priest  told,  that  night,  to  his  supe- 
rior, a  most  wondrous  tale,  concerning  the  probable 
erection  of  a  new  abbey,  and  the  visible  bodily  appear- 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  123 

ance  of  the  gentleman  in  black,  at  which  the  said  supe- 
rior shook  his  head,  and  seemed  greatly  scandalized, 
and  commanded  brother  Dodun  to  retire  incontinently 
to  his  cell:  and  brother  Dodun  retired  accordingly, 
and  was  grievously  troubled  in  his  dreams  until  the 
morning,  when  he  endeavoured  to  persuade  himself 
that  the  whole  affair  was  a  dream  altogether;  and 
probably  might  have  succeeded,  but  for  the  presence 
of  the  rouleaux,  which  bore  too  weighty  an  evidence  to 
the  contrary.  So  he  took  them  to  his  superior,  who, 
notwithstanding  the  irregular  proceedings  of  the  last 
evening,  received  them  and  their  bearer  with  great 
benignity;  for  brother  Dodun  was,  as  his  inclination  to 
obesity  indicated,  a  pleasant  and  harmless  sort  of  fel- 
low, and,  withal,  an  agreeable  companion  when  the 
brotherhood  met  in  the  refectory,  and  one  who  under- 
stood the  meaning  of  "desipere  in  loco." 

When,  however,  the  poor  fellow  repeated  his  tale, 
the  dignitary's  countenance  underwent  a  considerable 
change;  and  he  called  for  holy  water  and  a  pair  of 
scales,  wherewith  the  pieces  of  gold  were  scrutinized, 
and  each  found  to  be  perfectly  "comme  il  faut." 

"We  have  no  right  to  refuse  that  which  is  given 
'pour  les  pauvres,' "  said  the  abbe,  "let  it  come  from 
where  it  may.'' 

Dodun  bowed  assent. 

"As  for  this  Comte  D'Ormalle,"  continued  the  other, 
"I  feel  it  to  be  my  duty  to  wait  upon  him  myself.  It 
appears  to  me  that  he  is  much  to  be  pitied;  and,  I  have 
no  doubt,  is  a  verv  amiable  man." 


124  THE    GENTt-EMAN    IN    BLACK. 

The  abb6,  consequently,  paid  his  respects  to  our  he- 
ro, and  told  him  that  it  was  an  ugly  piece  of  business; 
but  that  the  church  was  very  powerful,  and  that  he 
was  an  humble  son  thereof;  yet  that,  nevertheless,  he 
should  not  despair,  but  immediately  proceed  to  consi- 
der the  case. 

"In  the  meanwhile  I  should  advise,"  said  he,  *'that 
M.  le  Comte  would  take  into  consideration  the  state  of 
the  chapel  of  Notre  Dame  de  *  *  *  which  is  really  in 
such  a  state  of  dilapidation,  that  the  faithful  are  in  a 
perilous  situation.'' 

"Might  I  ask  the  favour  of  your  becoming  my  almo- 
ner in  such  a  case?"  asked  the  Comte,  taking  sundry 
billets  de  Banque  from  his  black  morocco  book;  "I  re- 
quest it  as  a  favour;  for  upon  my  honour,  I  understand 
nothing  of  architecture." 

The  abbe  condescended  to  grant  the  boon,  and  not- 
withstanding his  numerous  engagements,  promised  to 
see  that  the  money  was  properly  laid  out:  and  then  he 
went  his  way,  well  pleased  with  the  result  of  his  morn- 
ing visit. 

But  the  business  in  hand  was  of  too  great  importance 
to  be  settled  by  an  abbe;  therefore  the  abbe  went  to 
his  bishop,  and  communicated  the  interesting  particu- 
lars of  the  case;  whereupon  the  bishop,  who  was  some- 
what advanced  in  years,  and  moreover  of  "la  vielle 
cour,"  crossed  himself  in  divers  directions,  and  shook 
his  head,  while  his  whole  body  vibrated  in  unison  there- 
unto.    When  he  was  somewhat  recovered,  he  gave  it 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  125 

as  his  opinion  that  such  transactions  had  been  but  too 
common  during  the  revolution,  and  in  the  absence  of 
the  Bourbons. 

"We  must  take  time  to  consider  and  examine  into 
the  case,"  said  he,  "it  will  probably  throw  some  new 
light  upon  many  of  the  affairs  of  that  dark  period  of  our 
national  history,  when  religion  existed  scarcely  even  in 
name.  As  for  the  Comte  D'Ormalle,  I  have  no  doubt, 
from  what  you  state,  that  he  is  a  very  good  subject, 
and  a  very  amiable  man.  Indeed  I  feel  much  interest- 
ed in  his  situation,  and  shall  make  a  point  of  calling 
upon  him;  therefore, Monsieur  L'Abbe,  you  need  not  give 
yourself  any  further  uneasiness  or  trouble  in  the  affair. 
What  you  have  done  is  exceedingly  proper  and  judi- 
cious— you  may  now  leave  the  case  with  me." 

The  bishop  forthwith  ordered  his  carriage,  and  paid 
a  visit  to  our  hero,  who,  malgr6  the  honour  thus  be- 
stowed upon  him,  felt  a  little  annoyed  at  the  transfer, 
from  hand  to  hand,  of  his  somewhat  urgent  business. 
The  bishop,  however,  conducted  himself  with  the  most 
courtly  politeness,  and  assured  him,  upon  his  honour, 
that  it  was  a  very  ugly  piece  of  business;  but  that  the 
power  of  the  church  was  immense,  and  that,  though  he 
himself  was  only  an  humble  individual  son  thereof,  he 
would  nevertheless,  take  upon  himself  to  counsel  the 
G)mte  not  to  despair,  particularly  as  he  was  possessed 
of  the  means  of  doing  good. 

"There  never,  my  dear  Mons.  Le  Comte,"  continued 
he,  "  was  a  time  when  so  many  opportunities  of  evinc- 
L  2 


126  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

ing  sincere  contrition  presented  themselves.     The  sa- 
crilegious estrangement  of  the  church  lands  from  their 
original  pious  and  charitable  owners,  is  a  crying  national 
evil.   I  think  thereof  frequently  with  alarm.  There  is  an 
abbey  now,  which  I  have  the  best  means  of  knowing 
the  value  of!     It  is  on  the  banks  of  the  Loire,  and 
formerly  its  revenues  amounted  to  more  than  one  hun- 
dred thousand  livres;  but  now  they  are  merely  nominal, 
some  few  hundreds,  perhaps,  as  the  best  and  largest 
portion  of  the  land  has  been  sold  and  re-sold  half  a 
dozen  times,  and  changed  its  name  as  often;  and  now, 
I  am  told  it  belongs  to  some  upstart  parvenu  of  the  revo- 
lution, who  bought  himself  a  chateau  and  title  some- 
where in  Germany,  I  forget  the  name,  Braanks-some- 
thing,  but  that's  of  little  consequence.     We  have  made 
some  overtures  to  his  agent,  because  it  seems  that  the 
fellow  himself  never  troubles  his  head  about  busi- 
ness.    However,  I  won't  trespass  on  your  time,  Mons. 
Le  Comte.     I  merely  throw  out  a  hint:  nothing  can 
render  the  church  more  essential  service  than  the  re- 
demption of  her  lands.     It  is  far  better  than  wasting 
money  on  buildings  w^hich  must  come  to  decay,  whereas 
land  will  always,  if  well  managed,  produce  the  means 
of  supporting  the  establishment  respectably  in  all  its 
departments.     I  merely  offer  the  suggestion;  you  will 
reflect  upon  it.     As  for  the  estate  I  mentioned; — really 
I  am  getting  old — 1  have  forgotten  the  name;  but,  if 
you  can  devise  how  any  thing  can  be  effected;  it  matters 
little  to  me  individually.  At  my  time  of  life,  and  with  the 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         127 

accumulated  and  important  duties  of  my  arduous  oflSce, 
one  has  other  matters  to  think  of;  but  my  secretary  can 
furnish  you  with  particulars.  I  will  have  the  honour  of 
waiting  upon  you  again  in  a  few  days;  and,  in  the  mean- 
while, will  take  your  singular  case  into  consideration." 

Had  the  Bishop  mentioned  any  other  estate  in  France, 
probably  the  Comte  would  have  immediately  advanced 
the  money  for  the  purchase  thereof;  but  his  cTiateau  on 
the  banks  of  the  Loire,  with  all  the  improvements  and 
plantations  thereon  and  thereabout,  which  were  the 
work  of  his  own  head  and  hands;  the  "Babylon  which 
he  had  built;"  the  place  where,  he  trusted,  that  his 
sons  and  his  sons'  sons,  for  many  generations,  would 
dwxU  long  and  respected,  in  happy  ignorance  of  the 
manner  in  which  the  family  estate  was  acquired;  that, 
and  the  thousand  dreams  thereon  dependent,  were  too 
dear  to  be  parted  from  in  a  moment. 

"Beside,"  thought  the  Comte  to  himself,  "I  know  not 
if  the  sacrifice  would  benefit  me  in  the  least.  In  all 
probability  the  old  bishop  would  act  like  the  abbe  and 
the  monk;  and,  having  effected  his  own  immediate  pur- 
pose, hand  me  over  to  some  archbishop  or  cardinal, 
who,  in  his  turn,  might  transfer  me  to  the  inquisition 
or  the  Pope." 

Possibly  the  Comte's  "amour  propre"  might  have 
been  somewhat  wounded  by  the  epithets  used  by  the 
bishop.  No  man  likes  to  be  called  a  parvenu:  and  few 
dislike  the  term  more  than  the  man  who  has  lately 
mounted  a  coronet.    When  left  to  himself,  he  again 


IS^S  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN   BLACK. 

began  to  reflect.  The  idea  of  going  to  England  had 
frequently  occurred  to  him  before;  for,  to  do  him  jus- 
tice, he  had  not  entirely  forgotten  his  former  j^outhful 
friend,  Charles  Maxwell;  he  had,  however,  generally 
given  up  the  scheme  as  hopeless,  from  a  notion  of  the 
impossibility  of  finding  an  individual  in  a  country  where 
there  are  no  passports,  even  if  his  friend  were  in  Eng- 
land; but  it  had  been  represented  to  him,  that  all  our 
countrymen,  who  were  possessed  of  adequate  means, 
or  who  were  not  engaged  in  some  office^  were  travelling 
and  scattered  abroad  in  all  quarters  of  the  globe. 

"No  doubt,"  said  he  to  himself,  "Maxwell  is  yet  liv- 
ing, has  bought  some  unpronounceable  title,  and  is  now 
roaming  through  Mesopotamia,  or  Siberia,  or  China,  or 
Timbuctoo,  or  Terra  del  Fuego,  or  to  the  North  Pole. 
One  might  as  well  think  of  finding  the  wandering  Jew 
as  a  wandering  Englishman.  But  "c'est  egal!"  I  may 
as  well  go  to  London  as  remain  here  while  the  bishop 
is  taking  "my  singular  case  into  consideration."  How- 
ever, I  will  first  see  Emilie  and  the  children." 

Accordingly  he  went  to  see  his  children  that  day; 
and,  if  we  wrote  for  the  purpose  of  exciting  the  com- 
passionate feelings  of  our  readers,  we  should  describe 
the  particulars  of  his  interview  with  each.  As  it  is, 
suffice  it  to  say,  that,  ere  they  parted,  he  pressed  them 
to  his  bosom,  bent  over  them  and  sighed;  and,  as  his 
sumptuous  equipage  rolled  back  with  him  into  Paris, 
he  hid  his  face  in  his  hands,  groaned  in  spirit  and  wept 
bitterly. 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         129 

Yet  when  his  carriage  was  stopped,  for  a  few  mo- 
ments, in  the  Boulevards,  by  a  crowd  collected  round 
a  bear  and  three  well  dressed  monkies,  the  Comte  D'Or- 
malle's  head  issued  therefrom,  and  he  applauded  their 
apeish  tricks  in  great  apparent  glee,  and  threw  a  louis 
to  the  Savoyard,  and  was,  in  return,  applauded  by  the 
populace,  who  made  way  for  his  carriage,  and  shouted 
*'Vive  Monsieur  Le  Due!" 

Next  day  the  Comtesse  came  back  from  Fontaine- 
bleau,  accompanied  by  her  most  perpendicular  father, 
the  Comte  de  Tien  a  la  Cour,  the  abbe  Beueton,  his 
now  constant  companion,  and  some  half  dozen  of  that 
highly  favoured  class  which  most  do  congregate  about 
the  precincts  of  a  court,  pluming  and  glorifying  them- 
selves in  the  name  of  ancestors,  who  would  most  as- 
suredly, if  allowed  to  revisit  "the  precincts  of  the  cheer- 
ful day,"  be  specially  ashamed  of  their  posterity.  It 
seems  that  the  whole  party  were  particularly  fond  of 
"news,"  or,  as  we  familiarly  say,  "gossipping;"  a  sci- 
ence which,  with  the  usual  adjuncts  of  "envy,  hatred, 
malice,  and  all  uncharitableness,"  flourisheth  greatly 
among  those  who  are  somewhat  curtailed  in  their 
means,  but  who  have,  or  fancy  they  have,  great  claims 
and  pretensions  to  respect  and  consideration. 

The  Abbe  Beueton  was  an  excellent  jackall  for  these 
soi-disant  lions;  and  he  had  scarcely  been  an  hour  in 
Paris,  ere  he  picked  up  some  shreds  and  patches  of  the 
Comte* D'Ormalle's  *  singular  case"  from  the  brethren 
of  brother  Dodun,  who  was  reported  to  have  seen 


130  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

divers  strange  visions,  and  lo  have  uttered  sundry  mar- 
vellous and  portentous  outcries  during  his  feverish 
slumbers. 

These  "odds  and  ends,"  the  Abbe  Beueton,  as  in 
duty  bound,  related,  in  confidence,  to  his  patron,  the 
Comte  de  Tien  a  la  Cour,  who  saw  fit  to  extend  that 
confidence  to  his  valet,  charging  him  to  examine  more 
particularly  into  the  business,  and  to  report  progress  at 
the  next  sitting.  The  valet  whispered  thereof  into  the 
ear  of  the  Comtesse's  waiting  woman,  who  was  quite 
shocked  at  the  idea  of  something  dreadful,  she  knew 
not  what;  and  her  imagination  and  fear  were  extremely 
active  during  the  brief  interval,  which  expired  between 
the  communication  of  the  valet,  and  her  being  sum- 
moned to  attend  the  Comtesse. 

"What's  the  matter  with  you,  Lisette?"  asked  her 
mistress,  "you  look  as  if  you  had  been  overturned.  Did 
the  carriage  break  down?  where  was  it?  Has  Blousseau 
brought  home  that  dress  yet?  There — that  silk,  you 
see,  is  all  manner  of  colours.  They  have  lost  the  art 
of  dyeing,  I  think,  or  the  sun  is  getting  nearer  the  earth. 
Ah!  that's  it.  I  remember  Monsieur  Salamander's  lec- 
ture— we  shall  all  be  broiled.  Don't  you  think  so? 
Why  don't  you  speak?" 

"I'm  afraid  we  shall,"  said  Lisette,  "but  it's  a  good 
thing  to  have  a  clear  conscience.  Indeed  I  should  be 
very  sorry  to  leave  so  good  a  mistress,  but,  here  he 
comes!"  and  she  began  muttering  a  prayer  and  hand- 
ling a  crucifix,  as  she  saw  her  master  cross  the  court. 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         131 

"What  can  ail  the  silly  girl?'  exclaimed  the  Com- 
tesse,  "tell  me,  Lisette,  speak  out!  you  terrify  me!" 

"I  am  terrified  myself,"  sobbed  Lisette,  "oh,  the  vir- 
gin! who  would  have  thought  it?  So  nice  a  gentle- 
man!" 

"Who?  what — what  are  you  talking  about?  I  insist 
on  knowing,"  said  the  Comtesse. 

Lisette  forthwith  revealed  all  she  had  heard,  and  a 
little  more;  whereby  it  appeared  that  the  Comte  was 
haunted  by  sorte  evil  spirit,  and  the  Comtesse  averred 
that  she  felt  no  doubt  the  report  was  perfectly  true, 
for  she  had  written  to  him.  twice  for  money,  and  he  had 
taken  no  notice  of  her  letters. 

"I  am  glad  you  bear  it  so  well,"  observed  Lisette; 
**for  my  own  part,  if  the  devil  was  my  husband,  I 
should  go  mad." 

"You  are  mad  already,  I  think,"  replied  the  Comtesse. 

"Oh,  no,  indeed,'^  said  Lisette,  "1  wish  I  was;  but 
it's  all  true.  For  you  know,  my  lady,  where  an  evil 
spirit  has  got  into  a  man,  they  are  all  one,  and  there- 
fore"  

"Nonsense.  Then  all  men  are  devils,"  added  the 
Comtesse. 

"Very  likely,"  observed  Lisette,  looking  demure,  "I 
anv  not  married,  however,  to  one,  that's  some  comfort." 

"Nay,  then,  said  the  Comtesse,  "if  you  are  thankful 
because  you  are  not  married,  something  very  strange 
indeed  must  have  happened  to  you;  so,  sit  down  like  a 
good  girl,  and  tell  me  all  you  have  heard." 


132  THE    GENTLEMAN   IN    BLACK. 

Lisette  had  no  more  to  tell;  but  thus  commanded, 
she  repeated  what  she  had  said  before,  with  certain  al- 
terations and  additions  tending  to  support  her  theory, 
that  when  a  devil  had  possession  of  a  man,  the  said 
man  was  thereby  transformed  into  a  devil.  The  Com- 
tesse,  who  had  never  before  known  the  want  of  money 
since  her  marriage,  had  been  not  a  little  nettled  at  her 
lord's  neglect,  and  felt  previously  disposed  to  confer  up- 
on him  the  benefit  of  conjugal  discipline;  so  being  a 
good  Catholic,  she  now  resolved  to  commence  with  the 
new  and  extraordinary  accusation  against  him,  which 
had  just  met  her  ear. 

When  she  entered  the  apartment  in  which  the 
Comte  was  sitting,  although  they  had  not  been  sepa- 
rated for  more  than  three  months,  he  arose  and  has- 
tened towards  her  with  almost  lover-like  alacrity,  and 
was  much  surprised  at  her  recoiling  from  his  embrace. 

"My  dear  Emilie,"  said  he,  what  ails  you?" 

"Oh,  Louis!  Louis!"  exclaimed  she,  raising  her  hand- 
kerchief to  her  eyes,  "how  dreadfully  you  have  de- 
ceived me!  Are  you  not  ashamed  to  look  me  in  the 
face?" 

"Ashamed,  Madam!"  exclaimed  the  Comte,  "may  I 
be  permitted  to  have  the  honour  of  inquiring  what  you 
Can  possibly  mean?" 

"May  I,"  asked  the  Comtesse,  drawing  herself  up  into 
as  commanding  an  attitude  as  might  be,  "may  I  be 
permitted  to  have  the  honour  of  inquiring  who  you 
arel" 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         133 

"Who  I  am!"  ejaculated  the  Comte,  and  glancing 
aside  at  a  mirror,  as  though,  for  the  moment,  dubious 
of  his  own  identity.  * 

"Yes,"  said  the  Comtesse,  "who  you*are.  Tell  me, 
who  are  you?"  and  she  held  her  handkerchief  and  fan 
with  as  much  formality  as,  in  ancient  paintings,  kings 
and  queens  uphold  the  insignia  of  royalty,  for  she  had 
resolved  to  get  up  a  scene. 

"Really,  Madam,"  replied  the  Comte,  "there  is 
something  utterly  incomprehensible,  I  had  almost  said 
ridiculous,  in  all  this.  Will  you  do  me  the  favour  to 
explain?" 

"No,  Sir,"  was  the  reply,  "the  explanation  must 
come  from  you.  Once  more  I  ask  you,  who  are  you? 
what  do  you  call  yourself?" 

"I  beg  to  be  excused  from  making  any  reply,"  said 
he,  somewhat  haughtily,  for  a  sudden  thought  struck 
him.  He  had  heard  of  ladies  who,  when  enervated  by 
the  fatigues  of  dissipation,  were  in  the  habit  of  reviving 
their  drooping  spirits  by  Eau  de  Cologne,  Rosolio,  &c. 
&c.,  and  sometimes  by  accident,  mistaking  the  proper 
quantity.  It  was  a  painful  and  degrading  reflection, 
but  he  could  not  tell  otherwise  how  to  account  for  a 
lady's  not  knowing  her  own  husband.  Therefore  he 
likewise  drew  himself  up  into  an  erect  position,  and 
added  in  a  cold  and  constrained  manner,  "it  is  quite 
useless,  Emilie — Madame,  to  continue  this  conversation 
nozc.     To-morrow,  perhaps,  you  will  be  more  yourself; 

M 


134  THE    GENTLEMAW    IN    BLACK. 

at  present,  you  are  evidently  under  the  influence  of — 
of" 

"Of— of  what?"  exclaimed  the  Comtesse,  reddening 
with  anger.     * 

"Oh!  nothing — nothing,"  replied  the  Comte,  cava- 
lierly; "I  suppose  it  is  the  fashion,  Madame — only  of — 
of— evil  spirits." 

"I  possessed  by  evil  spirits!"  ejaculated  the  Comtesse. 
You  are  pleased  to  be  facetious,  Monsieur!  But  no!  I 
will  not  be  turned  from  my  purpose.  Listen!  (here  the 
lady  assumed  what  was  intended  to  be  an  awe-imposing 
attitude)  listen  and  know,  wretched  man!  that  thy  se- 
cret is  discovered." 

"What  do  you  mean?"  exclaimed  the  Comte,  and  a 
sudden  qualm  rushed  across  his  mind,  as  he  thought 
that  between  the  monk,  and  the  abbe,  and  the  bishop, 
and  the  bishop's  secretary,  and  all  their  official  and 
confidential  friends,  it  was  barely  possible.  The  con- 
sequence was  a  visible  agitation,  and  an  involuntary 
ejaculation  of  "Le  Dibble!" 

"Precisely  so,"  said  the  Comtesse;  and  the  Comte 
was  convinced,  by  that  phrase,  that  the  gentleman  in 
black  had  betrayed  him.  "Yes,"  continued  the  Com- 
tesse, **Le  Diable,  indeed!  That  is  the  very  thing.  I 
know  all  about  it." 

"Then,  Madame,"  said  the  Comte,  after  some  hesita- 
tion, "you  cannot  but  pity  me.  You  must  be  aware 
that  I  have,  hitherto,  concealed  the  truth  from  you, 
merely  to  save  your  feelings,  and  that  I  have  made  use 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  135 

of  my  wealth  and  consequent  power  to  promote  your 
happiness." 

Here  the  lady  was  quite  overwhelmed  by  the  vio- 
lence of  contending  emotions;  for  she  had  only  pretend- 
ed to  believe  Lisette's  tale  for  the  purpose  of  producing 
effect.  Now,  however,  her  husband  had,  as  it  seemed, 
confessed  his  devilhood;  and,  therefore,  on  that  hint 
she  spake,  and  called  him  by  a  great  variety  of  names, 
and  vowed  that  she  had  been  entrapped,  and  deceived, 
and  most  exceedingly  ill-used,  and  withal  that  she  had 
always  suspected  that  there  was  something  very  mys- 
terious about  him. 

It  would  seem  that  the  habit  of  having  her  own  way 
for  so  many  years  had  changed  the  Comtesse  when  de- 
livering her  sentiments;  and  her  spouse  could  not  help 
comparing  the  cutting  vituperations,  to  which  it  was 
his  fate  to  be  now  exposed,  with  the  silvery  tones  of  his 
beloved  Emilie  before  marriage;  and  he  rashly  ventur- 
ed to  say  something  thereupon.  The  consequence  was 
a  repetition  of  the  epithets  before  mentioned,  with  the 
addition  of  a  few  more  which  happened  to  occur  to  the 
Comtesse's  recollection;  and  the  whole  was  terminated 
by  something  very  like  hysterics,  (but  not  precisely  so, 
for  the  Comtesse  was  not  much  given  to  nervous  affec- 
tions, and  the  angry  avowal,  that  had  she  known  or 
suspected  the  truth,  notwithstanding  his  riches,  rather 
than  have  married  him,  she  would  have  seen  him  in 
the  very  worst  and  deepest  part  of  a  very  bad  place, 
that  shall  be  nameless  here. 


136  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

<«I  don't  believe  a  word  of  it,"  said  the  Comte,  who 
felt  somewhat  exasperated  in  his  turn. 

"Don't  you,  Monsieur  Diablel"  exclaimed  the  in- 
censed Comtesse;  *'but  you  shall  see  that  I  have  a  spirit; 
for  I  vow,  that  you  shall  never  see  my  face  again;"  and, 
with  these  words,  she  rushed  out  of  the  room. 

Whether  the  lady  meant  this  as  somewhat  more 
than  a  mere  lover's  vow,  or  whether  the  Comte  really 
believed  she  would  keep  it,  can  scarcely  be  ascertain- 
ed; for  she  instantly  began  to  collect  some  unpaid  bills, 
respecting  which  she  had  been  lately  annoyed;  and  he, 
immediately  on  being  left  alone,  took  a  pinch  of  snuff, 
shrugged  up  his  shoulders,  and  observed  that  "something 
worse  might  have  happened;"  and  then  summoned  his 
valet,  and  ordered  him  to  prepare  for  a  journey  to 
England,  which  he  had  resolved  to  commence  im^ 
TTiediately. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

When  the  Comte  arrived  in  London,  he  found  no 
difficulty  in  obtaining  the  address  of  his  quondam  youth- 
ful friend,  Mr.  Maxwell;  and  their  meeting  was  such 
as  might  be  expected  between  two  persons  who  have 
frequently,  during  a  protracted  separation,  thought 
upon  the  days  of  "auld  lang  syne." 

Comte  Louis  listened  to  the  particulars  of  his  brother 
bondsman's  escape  with  a  degree  of  patience  which  is 
seldom  bestowed  upon  long  stories:  and  was  not  the 
less  anxious  for  an  introduction  to  old  Bagsby,  because 
he  could  not  exactly  comprehend  the  nature  of  the 
threatened  chancery  suit,  with  which  that  ancient  limb 
of  the  law  had  so  effectually  alarmed  the  gentleman  in 
black. 

The  two  friends  accordingly  repaired  forthwith  to 
Lyon's  Inn,  where  they  found  the  lean  veteran  at  his 
post,  and  received  that  sort  of  welcome  which  rich 
clients  usually  experience  from  experienced  legal  ad- 
visers. 

Mr.  Maxwell  introduced  the  Comte  and  his  business: 
and  the  Comte  himself  endeavoured  to  elucidate  the 
subject;  but  he  spoke  such  an  odd  sort  of  English,  as 
might  have  tended  to  perplex  any  one,  except  an  old 

M  2 


138  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

lawyer,  who  had  lived  more  than  half  a  century  in  the 
midst  of  botheration  and  intricate  investigation. 

"JHumph!"  said  the  man  of  parchment,  after  patient- 
ly listening  to  his  client's  statement,  "Humph!  This 
is  an  ugly  piece  of  business!"  and  he  pulled  off  his 
spectacles,  and  laid  them  on  the  table,  and  threw  him- 
self back  in  his  chair,  and  projected  his  under  Hp,  and 
began  to  pull  it  with  the  forefinger  and  thumb  of  his 
left  hand,  while  the  two  friends,  but  more  particularly 
the  Comte,  watched  his  motions  with  no  small  degree 
of  anxiety,  and  a  most  profound  and  respectful  silence. 

After  a  brief  pause,  there  appeared  a  gleam  of  cun- 
ning exultation  lighted  up  in  the  old  fellow's  eye;  and 
his  wrinkled  mouth,  in  spite  of  the  hold  upon  the  under 
lip,  pursed  itself  into  somewhat  like  a  corresponding 
smile.  Divers  other  contortions  followed,  such  as  one 
might  suppose  to  have  been  in  fashion  among  the  Sy- 
bils; and,  at  length,  he  spoke  oracularly. 

"Humph!  this  is  an  ugly  piece  of  business!  But, 
however.  Sir,  if  you  will  put  yourself  entirely  in  my 
hands,  and  follow  my  directions  implicitly,  I  think  we 
need  not  despair.  Indeed  I  have  no  doubt  we  shall  be 
able  to  pull  you  through." 

"Est  il  possible!"  exclaimed  the  Comte,  "my  dear 
Sir!  What  a  fool  I  have  been  to  waste  my  time  in 
parleying  with  ignorant  monks  and  priests,  instead  of 
coming  to  you!  I  am  perfectly  enchanted  and  aston- 
ished at  your  abilities!  It  is  a  disgrace  to  your  highly 
polished  and  polite  nation  that  you  are  not  Lord  Chan- 
cellor!" 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         139 

We  have  here  given  the  substance,  rather  than  the 
words  of  Monsieur  Le  Comte  D'Ormalle,  and  mean, 
during  the  recital  of  what  happened  to  him  in  England, 
to  adopt  the  same  plan,  inasmuch  as,  if  we  were  to  re- 
peat his  Gallicisms,  the  effect  produced  might  be  some- 
what too  light  and  ludicrous  for  the  serious  nature  of 
our  tale.  It  is  not  to  be  expected  in  any  case  that  fo- 
reigners can  speak  like  natives.  Indeed,  the  gentle- 
man in  black  had  told  our  heroes  many  years  before, 
when  they  were  commencing  their  travels,  that,  not- 
withstanding his  friendship  and  wish  to  oblige  them,  he 
could  not  assist  them  in  that  particular. 

"For,"  said  he,  "in  spite  of  the  constant  intercourse 
which  I  have  with  various  nations,  the  continual  altera- 
tions in  idioms  and  phraseology:  and  the  coining  and 
changing  of  words  are  such,  that  I  am  frequently  puz- 
zled myself." 

In  the  present  case,  however,  the  Comte's  bad  Eng- 
lish was  of  little  importance,  since  most  persons  can 
understand  flattering  speeches,  however  indifferently 
they  may  be  expressed. 

Bagsby,  therefore,  bowed  his  acknowledgments,  and 
muttered  somewhat  about  its  being  a  man's  duty  to  be 
satisfied,  if  "in  these  times  he  could  get  bread  and 
cheese,  and  make  both  ends  meet." 

Mr.  Maxwell,  who  had  now,  under  the  instruction  of 
his  father's  old  friend  and  servant,  Mr.  Ledger,  become 
somewhat  like  a  man  of  business,  requested  Bagsby  to 
communicate  his  plan  for  the  discomfiture  of  the  gen- 
tleman in  black:  and  the  Comte,  having  declared,  upon 


140  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

his  honour,  that  he  would  act,  in  every  respect,  as  he 
should  be  directed,  the  man  of  law  made  him  produce 
his  black  morocco  book,  and  compare  some  of  the  notes 
therein  with  others  which  were  in  the  office,  and  which 
had  been  brought  directly  from  the  bank. 

Spectacles  and  magnifying  glasses  were  used,  but  the 
trio  were  unable  to  discover  the  smallest  difference; 
and  Bagsby  could  not  refrain  from  heaving  a  sigh  at 
the  recollection  of  the  toil  and  difficulty  which  he  had 
fexperienced  in  amassing  the  few  he  was  able  to  call  his 
own;  while  the  Comte  had  only  to  open  his  book  and 
take  out  any  number  he  thought  fit.  He  knew  that 
there  was  not  a  word  about  interest  mentioned  in  the 
bond,  and  strange  visions  came  over  his  mind,  of  the 
immense  profits  which,  with  his  knowledge  of  things  in 
general,  he  could  make  of  an  unlimited  capital  under 
such  circumstances.  "I'd  be  bound  very  shortly  to  pay 
the  dingy  gentleman  his  principal,"  thought  he,  *'and 
realize  a  handsome  fortune."  And  again  he  sighed  and 
appeared  for  a  few  seconds,  lost  in  a  reverie,  from  which 
he  was  aroused  by  Mr.  Maxwell,  who  said  that  he  had 
business  in  the  city,  and  must  be  moving. 

The  lean  limb  of  the  law  forthwith  began  to  unfold 
part  of  his  plan,  and  instructed  the  Comte  to  purchase 
bullion  and  foreign  specie  with  the  notes  aforesaid. 
*'We  will  never,"  said  he,  "allow  any  of  the  forgeries 
to  be  carried  to  account  against  you  by  the  gentleman 
in  question;  and  you  may  very  shortly,  in  this  way, 
realize  a  sufficient  sum  to  set  all  straight  with  the  old 
fellow." 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.        141 

The  Comte  was  highly  delighted  with  the  scheme, 
and  immediately  commenced  operations,  by  going  into 
the  city  and  buying,  at  a  somewhat  apparently  dear 
rate,  divers  weighty  packages  of  napoleons,  louis  d'ors, 
&c.  &c.:  and,  when  the  market  was  somewhat  thin- 
ned of  gold,  he  began  to  speculate  in  silver. 

These  transactions,  which  we  here  briefly  relate,  oc- 
cupied many  days,  and  caused  a  rise  of  no  small  mag- 
nitude in  the  prices  of  gold  and  silver  bullion.  Indeed 
the  subsequent  scarcity  of  the  precious  metals  through- 
out the  British  empire,  and  the  depreciation  of  paper 
money,  respecting  which  so  many  opaque  pamphlets 
were  written,  have  been  supposed  by  some  to  date 
their  origin  from  these  and  similar  transactions.  That 
is  to  say,  from  endeavours  to  pay  the  gentleman  in 
black,  what  appeared  to  be  his  due. 

In  the  mean  while  he  did  not  remain  idle.  The  de- 
mands of  the  Comte  D'Ormalle  upon  the  black  morocco 
leather  pocket-book,  were  too  frequent  to  escape  the 
notice  of  so  nice  a  calculator;  and,  after  some  inquiry, 
finding  how  matters  were  going  on,  he  called  upon 
Bagsby,  and  had  a  long  private  interview  with  him, 
during  which  it  is  said  that  high  words  past  between 
them:  but  the  exact  particulars  never  transpired. 

The  immediate  result,  however,  was,  that  old  Jerry 
was  despatched  with  a  letter  to  the  Comte,  desiring 
him  instantly  to  change  his  quarters,  and  take  lodgings 
in  some  retired  part  of  the  town,  and,  on  no  account 
whatsoever,  to  show  himself  in  public. 

With  the  former  part  of  this  advice  his  client  in- 


142  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

stantly  complied,  being  assisted  in  his  research  for  a 
snug  retreat  by  Mr.  Maxwell:  but,  alas!  all  men  have 
their  weak  sides;  and  there  are  certain  pleasures  so  be- 
witching and  fascinating  to  us  all,  in  our  turn,  that 
even  the  dread  of  the  gentleman  in  black  himself,  is 
not  sufficiently  powerful  to  deter  us  from  the  enjoyment 
thereof. 

The  Comte  found  it  utterly  impossible  to  absent  him- 
self from  the  opera:  and,  having  made  up  his  mind  to 
go,  he  found  little  difficulty  in  persuading- himself  that 
he  should  be  as  completely  concealed  in  the  midst  of  a 
crowded  audience,  as  in  his  own  lodgings.  Therefore 
he  went  to  see  his  countryman.  Monsieur  Piaffeur, 
achieve  a  complicated  dance  with  the  two  Mademoi- 
selles Rebatins;  and  was  so  delighted  with  the  perform- 
ance of  the  trio,  that  he  could  not  avoid  exclaiming, 
"Superbe  et  magnifique!  Bravo!  et  encore!" 

Some  half  score  pair  of  eyes  were  immediately  turn- 
ed toward  the  enthusiastic  applauder,  who,  with  a 
chilly  and  uncomfortable  feeling,  recognised  among 
them  those  of  an  old  acquaintance,  who  had  formerly 
sported  a  pompadour  coat  in  the  Palais  Royal. 

The  Comte,  who  was  considered  somewhat  of  a  pro- 
ficient in  the  art,  resolved  to  "cut"him,andaccording- 
ingly  armed  himself  with  his  snufF-box  and  eye-glass, 
and  acted  his  part  "a  merveille,"  gazing  as  unconsci- 
ously as  possible  at  the  individual  in  question,  and  then 
turned  away  to  look  at  something  else,  with  an  express- 
ive shrug  of  the  shoulders,  which  said,  as  plainly  ^s 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.  143 

shrug  could  speak,  "No,  Sir,  I  certainly  have  never 
had  the  honour  of  being  introduced  to  you." 

But  the  gentleman  ini)lack,  instead  of  being  put  out 
of  countenance,  seemed  much  diverted  by  this  display 
of  sang  froid,  and  forthwith  repeated  the  poor  Comte's 
exclamation,  "Superbe  et  magnifique!  Bravo!  encore!" 

Whereupon  the  Frenchman  again  hoisted  his  shoul- 
ders, and  said  "Bourgeois!"  and  redoubled  his  eflforts  to 
appear  perfectly  at  ease,  and  consequently  drew  upon 
himself  a  double  share  of  notice. 

Now  it  happened,  fortunately,  that  Mr.  Maxwell 
was  at  the  opera  that  night;  and  it  was  yet  more  for- 
tunate that  his  attention  was  drawn  to  the  spot,  where 
this  little  scene  was  enacted  in  the  pit.  He  had  be- 
come, as  we  have  observed  before,  under  Mr.  Ledger's 
tuition,  somewhat  of  a  man  of  business,  and,  therefore, 
he  knew  that  delays  were  dangerous,  so  he  instantly 
despatched  a  friend  who  was  in  the  box  with  him,  to 
summon  old  Bagsby  to  the  seat  of  action,  feeling,  no 
doubt,  that  the  gentleman  in  black  was  contemplating 
a  coup  de  main:  and  it  was  well  that  he  did  so,  for  the 
lean  and  learned  man  of  law  arrived  just  in  time  to 
witness  the  caption  of  his  client  by  Messieurs  Tappem 
and  Grumps,  two  of  the  legal  "operatives"  on  such  ser- 
vices, who  acted  under  the  orders  of  Mr.  Micros  Crabs- 
eye,  of  whom  we  have  had  occasion  formerly  to  speak. 

Mr.  Maxwell  offered  bail  to  any  amount  in  behalf  of 
his  friend;  but  Mr.  Crabseye  declared  bail  to  be  quite 
inadmissible,  as  the  prisoner's  offence  was  of  a  capital 
nature.     "Indeed,"  said  he,  "if  it  were  not  so,  and  the 


144  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

proofs  were  much  less  plain,  there  have  been  so  many- 
forged  notes  in  the  market  lately,  that  it  is  Our  duty  to 
the  public,  as  well  as  to  ourselves,  to  make  an  example 
whenever  we  have  it  in  our  power." 

"Humph!"  coughed  Bagsby,  whose  presence  then 
was  first  perceived,  "Humph!  this  is  an  ugly  piece  of 
business!  But,"  he  whispered  to  the  Comte,  "keep  up 
your  spirits!  I  have  no  doubt  that  we  shall  be  able  to 
pull  you  through." 

"Who  sent  for  you?"  exclaimed  the  gentleman  in 
black,  who  appeared  much  ruffled  and  forgetful  of  his 
habitual  politeness,  at  this  unexpected  and  unwelcome 
apparition  of  one  of  the  very  few  persons  in  the  world, 
by  whom  he  had  been  outwitted. 

"What's  that  to  you?"  asked  Bagsby,  with  the  sa«ie 
degree  of  urbanity,  "If  you  had  agreed  to  my  reason- 
able proposition,  and  let  me  have  a  pocket-book " 

"Pshaw!"  exclaimed  the  gentleman  of  the  black 
books,  interrupting  him,  "Reasonable,  indeed!  I'm  not 
such  a  fool  as  to  pay  a  high  price  for  what  I'm  sure  of 
getting  for  nothing.  No,  no,"  and  he  began  to  laugh  at 
his  own  joke,  as  was  very  customary  with  him,  and  to 
take  snufF  with  great  glee,  while  Bagsby  appeared  to 
be  trembling  with  passion,  and  literally  foaming  at  the 
mouth. 

"We  can't  waste  our  time,"  said  Mr.  Micros  Crabs- 
eye,  "Come  Tappem!   Come  Grumps!  Do  your  duty." 

"There  is  no  occasion  for  violence,"  said  Mr.  Maxwell. 
'♦Let  the  gentleman  be  treated  according  to  his  station 
•in  life,  which  is  that  of  a  peer  of  France." 


THE   GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  145 

Messrs.  Tappem  and  Grumps  receded  two  steps  at 
this  information,  but  kept  their  eyes  steadfastly  upon 
the  prisoner,  while  Mr.  Crabseye  very  inelegantly  re- 
marked, that  it  was  all  gammon  and  humbug,  and  that 
he  had  no  notion  of  foreign  counts  and  marquesses. 

The  scene  had  hitherto  been  enacted  in  the  lobby  of 
the  theatre:  but,  as  a  crowd  began  to  collect,  Mr.  Max- 
well offered  the  use  of  his  carriage,  by  which,  and  a 
hackney  coach,  which  Mr.  Crabseye  had  in  waiting,  all 
the  parties  were  speedily  removed,  "as  per  agreement," 
to  a  neighbouring  hotel;  Bagsby  taking  an  opportunity, 
during  the  transit,  of  recovering  his  lost  temper,  and 
whispering  certain  instructions  into  Mr.  Maxwell's  ear, 
in  consequence  of  which,  immediately  on  entering  the 
hotel,  that  gentleman  gave  orders  for  wines  and  re- 
freshment to  be  placed  on  the  table. 

When  they  entered  the  room  it  wanted  precisely 
twenty  minutes  to  twelve  o'clock.  It  was  an  anxious 
time  for  the  poor  Comte,  who  had  his  black  morocco 
leather  pocket-book  about  him,  containing  many  of  the 
notes  in  question,  the  discovery  of  which  upon  his  per- 
son would,  he  knew,  render^  his  case  absolutely  despe- 
rate. 

But  neither  Mr.  Maxwell  nor  old  Bagsby  had  forgot- 
ten that,  provided  the  said  notes  were  not  previously 
produced,  they  would,  according  to  the  bond,  vanish  at 
midnight. 

The  former,  therefore,  politely  addressed  Mr.  Crabs- 
eye, telling  him  that  he  had  frequently  heard  of  his 
extreme  vigilance,  and  that  it  was  much  better  that,  "^ 


146  THE   GENTLEMAN   IN   BLACK. 

as  in  the  present  case,  an  innocent  man  should  be  put 
to  inconvenience,  than  that  the  guilty  should  escape. 
"Really,  my  good  Sir,"  he  continued,  '*the  Bank  of 
England,  nay,  I  may  say  the  public  in  general,  are 
greatly  indebted  to  you.  For  my  own  part  as  a  part- 
ner in  a  house  of  some  eminence  in  the  city,  I  feel  a  de- 
gree of  personal  obligation,  which,  upon  my  word,  I 
hardly  know  how  to  express." 

**Very  likely  not,'*  observed  the  gentleman  in  black, 
who  was  as  well  aware  of  the  value  of  time  as  any  of 
the  parties.  **Do  me  the  favour,  Mr.  Crabseye,  just  to 
cast  your  eye  on  that  gentleman;  and  then,  perhaps, 
you  will  recollect  certain  forged  notes  being  traced  to 
him  some  time  since." 

"I  know  the  gentleman  and  his  firm,  Maxwell, 
Ledger  and  Co.,"  replied  Mr.  Crabseye,  "We  have 
kept  a  sharp  look  out,  I  promise  you:  but  alPs  right 
there.  I  don't  know  a  more  respectable  merchant  in 
the  city,  than  Mr.  Ledger." 

"He's  an  old  hum-drum,  line-ruling,  dot-and  go-one, 
calculating,  plodding,  sneaking,  inanimate,  old-fashion- 
ed, rusty,  old  square  toes!"  exclaimed  the  gentleman 
in  black,  forgetting  himself  for  a  moment,  in  his  rage 
against  Mr.  Ledger,  of  whom  he  never  lilced  to  hear. 
But  recollecting  himself,  he  continued,  "I  beg  your 
pardon  for  being  warm.  I  never  had  but  one  transac- 
tion with  the  person  of  whom  you  speak,  and  that  was 
anything  but  satisfactory.  However,  he  is  not  here 
^  now — that's  one  comfort! — So  I  bf  g  leave  to  observe 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         147 

that  the  prisoner  ought  immediately  to  be  searched; 
or,  even  now,  the  ends  of  justice  may  be  defeated." 

"There  can  be  no  occasion,"  said  Mr.  Maxwell,  "for 
treating  a  gentleman  with  such  indignity." 

"He  knows  better,"  observed  the  gentleman  in  black, 
sarcastically. 

"What  do  you  mean  by  that?"  asked  Mr.  Maxwell. 

"Aye,  aye,"  cried  Bagsby,  strutting  forward,  "What 
do  you  mean  by  that  insinuation?  I  beg  you  to  un- 
derstand that  a  British  merchant " 

"Confound  all  British  merchants!"  exclaimed  the 
man  of  the  black  cloak,  "Really,  Mr.  Crabseye,  if  you 
do  not  immediately  order  these  men  to  do  their  duty, 
I  will  not  answer  for  the  consequences." 

Here  old  Bagsby  jogged  Mr.  Maxwell's  elbow  and 
whispered,  "Pick  a  quarrel!  Kick  up  a  row!  Go  it! 
Anything  for  the  sake  of  time!  it  wants  only  ten 
minutes!"  and  then  the  cunning  lawyer  lifted  up  his 
own  voice,  and  addressed  the  gentleman  in  black,  say- 
ing, ''I'll  tell  you  what,  Mr.  what-d'ye-call-em,  a  British 
merchant  is  not  to  be  lightly  spoken  of  by  such  fellows 
as  you.  What  are  you?  Where  do  you  come  from? 
Pray,  Mr.  Crabseye,  my  worthy  friend,  where  did  you 
pick  up  this  ragamuffin  of  an  informer?' 

"It  can  be  of  little  consequence,"  replied  Mr.  Crabs- 
eye, w^ith  much  dignity,  "we  are  not  in  the  habit  of 
revealing  the  sources  whence  we  obtain  our  informa- 
tion. This  gentleman  has  lately  made  several  dis- 
coveries of  importance  to  us.  Perhaps  he  may  have 
had  a  hand  in  some  awkward  business;  but  what  o^ 


148  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BUJlCK. 

that?  we  must  have  evidence,  and  we  must  make  exam- 
ples of  some;  and  you  know  the  old  adage,  'Set  a  thief  to 
catch  a  thief,'  eh?' 

"Aye,  aye,"  cried  the  gentleman  in  black,  he  knows 
that  proverb  well  enough,  and  its  application  too:  for  if 
it  were  not  for  that  feeling,  there  would  be  little  enough 
to  do  in  his  office  at  Lyon's  Inn.  He!  he!  he!  How- 
ever, pray,  my  dear  Sir!  don't  lose  any  more  time  but 
begin  to  search.     It  will  be  of  no  use  presently." 

"That's  all  my  eye  and  Betty  Martin!"  ejaculated 
Mr.  Grumps,  "I've  got  my  eye-teeth  about  me,  I'll 
promise  ye;  and  if  so  be  as  the  gemman  goes  to  throw 
anything  away  without  my  seeing  it,  I'll  eat  it,  that's  all." 

"The  thing's  morally  impossible,"  observed  Mr.  Tap- 
pem.  "He  an't  the  first  noble  gentleman  we've  had 
hold  on  by  a  pretty  many." 

"These  men  have  been  tampered  with!"  exclaimed 
the  gentleman  in  black,  angrily. 

"What  does  he  say?"  cried  Bagsby,  "what!  my 
friends  Tappem  and  Grumps!  I'll  be  bold  enough  to 
say  that  they  are  as  worthy  and  honourable  men,  as 
any  about  the  courts.  A  pretty  sort  of  a  thing  it  would 
be  indeed,  if  honest  men's  characters  were  to  be  at 
the  mercy  of  a  fellow  like  this!  But  I'll  tell  you  what, 
gentlemen,"  he  continued,  whispering  to  the  officers; 
"he's  got  plenty  of  money,  I  know;  and  if  I  was  in  your 
place,  I'd  make  him  pay  pretty  handsomely,  or  bring 
an  action  against  him.  For  (here  he  elevated  his 
voice,  and  spoke  as  loud  as  possible)  character,  gentle- 
flnen,  is  every  thing, — 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.  149 

*'  'Who  steals  my  purse,  steals  trash;  'tis  something— nothing; 
Twas  mine,  'tis  his,  and  has  been  slave  to  thousands: 
But  he  that  filches  from  me  my  good  name, 
Robs  me  of  that  which  not  enriches  him, 
And  makes  me  poor  indeed.' " 

"Aye,  aye,'*  roared  Grumps,  strutting  up  to  the  gen- 
tleman in  black,  "who  steals  my  purse,  steals  trash — 
but  as  for  my  good  name,  why,  it — has — been — slave 
to  thousands — what  is  it?  I  don't  understand  poetry. 
Howsomever,  the  short  and  the  long  of  the  business  is, 
I  shan't  stand  no  nonsense;  and  so,  if  you  don't  make 
an  apology" — 

**Ah,  to  be  sure,"  said  Tappem,  "an  apology,  or  else 
come  down  pretty  handsome;  why,  look  ye,  Mr.  Black- 
and-all-black!  mayhap  you  may  lind  you  have  met 
with  your  match,  that's  all.  Ah,  to  be  sure,  he  who 
filches  from  me  my  character,  robs  me  of  that  which 
an't  of  no  use  to  him  nor  nobody  else,  and  it's  a  burning 
shame." 

The  moment  Tappem  was  silent,  Grumps  resumed; 
and  the  instant  Grumps  was  silent,  Tappem  spoke; 
and  sometimes  both  spoke  together;  and  as  they  waxed 
•warm,  their  language  became  more  obscure  and  slang- 
ish;  so  that  after  a  few  minutes,  the  gentleman  in 
black,  who  had  in  vain  endeavoured  to  stop  them, 
found  it  utterly  impossible  to  tell  what  they  were  talk- 
ing about,  although  he  was  himself  strongly  suspected 
of  having  lent  a  helping  hand  in  the  compilation  of  a 
"flash"  dictionary. 

Bagsby  having  thus  succeeded  in  making  a  diversioil^ 
N  2 


150  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

in  favour  of  his  client,  helped  himself  to  a  glass  of  wine, 
rubbed  his  hands,  smacked  his  lips,  and  indulged  him- 
self in  a  sort  of  cackling  laugh,  as  he  witnessed  the 
perplexity  of  the  black  bond-holder;  and  then  he  put 
his  fore-finger  to  the  side  of  his  nose,  and  winked  and 
nodded  at  the  Comte,  and  said,  "Never  fear,  Sir!  never 
fear!  It's  an  ugly  piece  of  business,  but  I  have  no 
doubt  we  shall  be  able  to  pull  you  through. 

The  gentleman  in  black  perceiving,  by  this  time, 
that  he  had  no  chance  of  silencing  the  two  orators  of 
the  handcuff,  appealed  to  Mr.  Crabseye;  but  that  gen- 
tleman, assuming  an  air  of  hauteur,  coldly  observed 
that  it  was  utterly  out  of  his  power  to  interfere;  yet, 
that  he  could  not  help  remarking,  that  gentlemen 
could  not  be  too  cautious  in  their  remarks,  and  that  all 
sorts  of  insinuations  against  men's  characters,  unless 
they  could  be  substantiated  by  evidence,  were  highly 
improper;  and  he  concluded  by  averring  that,  to  his 
own  belief  and  knowledge,  Messrs.  Tappem  and 
G  rumps  were  most  highly  respectable  and  honourable 
men.  Hereupon  the  two  gentlemen  last  mentioned, 
evinced  their  approbation  by  a  simultaneous  cry  of 
"Aye,  aye!"  and  a  moment  after,  the  clock  struck 
twelve. 

"Hurrah!"  shouted  Mr.  Maxwell. 

"Bravo!  bravissimo!  very  good!"  exclaimed  Comte 
Louis. 

"Tol  lol  de  rol,"  squeaked  Bagsby,  apeing  the  gayety 

^f  his  companions,  by  snapping  his  fingers  and  holding 

up  one  of  his  shrivelled  legs  as  if  about  to  cut  a  caper. 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.  151 

**I  told  you  how  it  would  be!"  said  the  gentleman  in 
black,  addressing  Crabseye. 

"Told  me  what?"  inquired  the  inquisitor  of  bank  notes. 

"It  is  of  no  use  to  search  him  now^^'^  observed  the 
gentleman  in  black,  sullenly.  "1  told  you  how  it  would 
be." 

"Told  me  what?"  repeated  Crabseye. 

"It's  past  twelve,"  was  the  reply. 

"He,  he,  he!  ha,  ha,  ha!"  chuckled  Bagsby.  "Ho, 
ho,  ho!  why,  you  don't  understand  the  gentleman,  Mr. 
Crabseye,  he  told  you  the  clock  would  strike — ho,  ho, 
ho!  oh  dear!"  Here  his  cough  interfered  to  prevent 
any  farther  remarks,  and  the  gentleman  in  black,  hav- 
ing tapped  his  black  snuff-box  and  taken  a  pinch  of 
blackguard,  appeared  to  have  recovered  his  equanimi- 
ty, and  calmly  told  Mr.  Crabseye  that  he  had  nothing 
more  to  observe  on  the  business,  as  the  prisoner  was 
secured,  and  the  law  would,  doubtless,  take  its  course. 

He  then  shook  hands  with  Messrs.  Tappem  and 
Grumps;  and  the  contact  of  his  fingers  with  their  palms 
had  an  almost  magical  effect;  for  they  not  only  ceased 
to  ask  for  apologies  relative  to  the  injuries  inflicted  up- 
on their  characters,  but  declared  that  they  thought  all 
along  that  he  was  "a  real  gentleman."  He  then  grace- 
fully folded  his  cloak  about  him,  and  politely  took  his 
leave  of  the  party.  Mr.  Micros  Crabseye  very  shortly  fol- 
lowed his  example;  and  Mr.  Maxwell,  after  listening, 
with  evident  satisfaction,  to  something  whispered  in  his 
ear  by  old  Bagsby,  went  next. 

The  remaining  four  then  sat  down  to  table;  and  the^ 


152  THE   GENTLEMAN   IN   BLACK. 

Comte,  implicitly  obeying  every  direction  of  his  skinny 
lawyer,  called  for  champagne,  which  came  at  his  call, 
and  disappeared  forthwith  in  the  hands  of  Tappem  and 
Grumps,  whom  Bagsby  proceeded  to  address:  "Gentle- 
men! my  friend  here  is  a  Frenchman,  and  doesn't  under- 
stand a  word  of  English;  therefore,  it's  no  sort  of  conse- 
quence what  we  say  before  him;  so,  first  I  must  tell  you, 
for  the  sake  of  your  consciences,  he  is  no  more  guilty 
of  forging  notes  than  I  am.  Perhaps  he  may  have  pass- 
ed one  or  two  innocently — that  might  happen  to  any 
man — but,  as  for  forging,  he  has  no  notion  of  it — in- 
deed I  suspect  that  fellow  that  gave  the  information." 

"What!"  said  Grumps,  "him  as  just  went  away, whom 
we  jawed  a  bit  about  our  characters'?" 

"The  same,"  replied  Bagsby;  "I  have  my  reasons." 

"Come,  come,  that  won't  do!"  cried  Tappem,  "we're 
not  to  be  bamboozled  in  that  way.  He's  a  gentleman 
every  inch  of  him,  and  I  wish  you  were  as  much  of 
one,  that's  all!  Come,  here's  to  your  reformation,  (and 
he  filled  himself  a  bumper)  you  sly  old  fox!  You're  up 
to  some  gammon  or  other  now,  I  can  see,  by  the  twink- 
ling of  your  eyes,  and  your  jaw-pulling  trick.  Aye,  aye, 
what,  you're  laughing,  are  you?  Well,  well,  you  may 
as  well  tell  us  what  it  is  at  once;  for  we're  all  friends, 
and  it's  getting  late." 

Upon  this  hint  Bagsby  spoke  to  the  officers  in  terms 
by  no  means  ambiguous;  and  a  very  brief  interval 
elapsed  ere  the  party  were  proceeding  along  the  streets 
in  a  hackney  coach,  towards  Mr.  Tappem's  private  re- 
sidence, wherein  it  had  been  previously  arranged  with 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  153 

Mr.  Crabseye,  the  person  of  Comte  Louis  was  to  be 
secured  for  the  night.  Ere  they  mounted  the  vehicle, 
Mr.  Grumps  had  walked  round  it,  to  see  that  the  straps 
and  other  matters  were  in  good  order;  for  Bagsby  ob- 
served that  several  of  his  friends  had  met  with  unplea- 
sant accidents,  from  the  shocking  inattention  of  hack- 
ney coachmen.  This  precaution,  however,  seemed  to 
be  in  vain,  though  we  dare  not  say  it  did  not  answer 
the  purpose,  for,  in  passing  along  a  narrow  street,  some- 
thing gave  way,  and  the  crazy  vehicle  heeled  over  on 
one  side.  The  Comte,  Bagsby,  and  Tappem,  found 
little  difficulty  in  extricating  themselves,  as  from  a  trap- 
door; but  poor  Grumps  lay  at  the  bottom,  and  declared 
his  leg  was  broken,  and  his  humane  comrade  was  peep- 
ing pitifully  into  the  dark  abyss,  and  lamenting  so  griev- 
ous a  disaster,  when  the  Comte,  under  the  directions  of 
Bagsby,  discharged  the  contents  of  his  snuff-box  into 
his  face. 

**My  eyes!  oh,  bless  my  heart!  I  can't  see!"  said  Tap- 
pem, clapping  his  hands  before  his  eyes. 

"This  way,"  whispered  Bagsby,  taking  the  Comte's 
arm,  "it's  all  right,"  and  he  led  him  through  one  dark 
alley  into  another,  and  turned  to  the  left  and  the  right, 
and  the  left  about  and  the  right  about,  for  the  space  of 
about  half  an  hour;  and  then  they  suddenly  emerged 
into  a  wide  street  near  a  bridge,  where  they  found  Mr. 
Maxwell  waiting  for  them  in  a  chaise  and  four.  So  the 
lawyer  took  a  brief  leaive  of  his  client,  who  took  a  seat 
in  the  vehicle,  and  arrived  in  his  native  land  in  good 
time  for  dinner. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

The  morning  after  the  events  related  in  the  last 
chapter,  old  Bagsby  found  himself  very  lonely  in  his 
gloomy  office  in  Lyons  Inn.  The  magnitude  of  the 
Comte's  transactions,  in  which  he  had  so  recently  been 
engaged,  made  the  "six  and  eightpences"  appear  ex- 
ceedingly insignificant;  and  he  conned  and  looked  over 
thq  petty  items  of  his  regular  clients  with  a  languid 
eye,  then  pulled  his  lip,  thrust  the  papers  from  him, 
threw  himself  back  in  his  chair,  looked  at  the  accus- 
tomed thrifty  modicum  of  small  coal  in  one  corner  of 
the  grate,  and  sighed. 

While  he  was  in  this  frame  of  mind,  the  door  open- 
ed, and  the  gentleman  in  black  made  his  appearance, 
and  politely  expressed  a  hope  that  he  saw  his  learned 
friend  in  good  health  and  spirits. 

"Middling,"  replied  Bagsby,  "I  believe  I  caught  a  bit 
of  a  cold  last  night.  Heugh!  heugh!  I  don't  like  late 
hours." 

"I  am  particularly  partial  to  them,"  said  he  of  the 
black  cloak,  placing  a  chair  near  the  fire-place,  and 
seating  himself  therein  in  a  quite-at-home  sort  of  a 
manner,  "I  recommend  them  particularly  to  all  my 
friends." 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         155 

"Humph!"  grunted  the  lawyer,  "very  likely.  But 
what's  your  business  here!  I  am  engaged,  you  see,  and 
have  no  time  for  visits  of  ceremony.  The  case  in  which 
we  were  engaged  is  now  removed  into  another  court, 
and  I  hate  morning  calls." 

"There  again,"  exclaimed  the  gentleman  of  the 
black-edged  papers,  "that's  very  extraordinary!  I  am 
particularly  partial  to  them.  The  sort  of  conversation 
which  generally  passes  on  such  occasions  pleases  me 
exceedingly,  that  is,  in  a  small  way.  Somewhat  in  the 
same  manner  as  the  six  and  eightpences  contribute  to 
your  comfort,  eh?  You  comprehend?  When  there  is 
no  business  on  a  large  scale  to  be  done,  eh? 

"Is  that  all  you  have  to  say?"  inquired  Bagsby,  dog- 
gedly turning  to  the  table,  and  rummaging  among  the 
papers  and  deeds,  as  though  seeking  for  some  document 
of  importance. 

"Not  exactly,"  replied  the  other.  "You  managed 
that  business  last  night  with  your  usual  skill,  and  I 
wished  to  express  to  you  that  I  do  not  feel  the  least 
animosity  on  account  of  the  event.  I  confess  myself 
to  have  been  out-generalled.  But,  my  dear  Sir,  (here 
he  drew  his  chair  somewhat  nearer  the  lawyer,)  now 
the  Comte  has  returned  to  his  own  country,  of  course 
you  do  not  any  longer  consider  him  as  your  client." 

"Humph!"  said  the  old  limb  of  the  law,  "that  de- 
pends upon  circumstances.  There  is  no  process  against 
him  at  present — but — hem,  hem!  my  cough  is  very 
troublesome." 


156  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK, 

<'Well,  well,  never  mind!"  continued  the  gentleman 
in  the  black  suit,  "I  like  to  come  to  the  point  at  once 
with  those  who  understand  business;  and  so,  without 
farther  preamble,  as  the  Comte's  business  in  this  coun- 
try may  now  be  fairly  considered  as  terminated,  you 
cannot,  in  any  way,  be  concerned  in  the  ultimate  ar- 
rangement of  his  affairs." 

"Hem,  heugh,  ahem!"  coughed  Bagsby,  "that  de- 
pends upon  circum — ahem!  my  cough  is  exceedingly 
troublesome." 

"Precisely  so,"  observed  the  gentleman  in  black;  "I 
perceive  it.  Well,  my  dear  Sir,  the  simple  matter  is, 
that,  from  what  I  have  witnessed  of  your  talents,  and 
considering  you  now  to  be  perfectly  at  liberty,  I  wait 
upon  you  this  morning  for  the  express  purpose  of  put- 
ting myself  into  your  hands." 

"What!"  exclaimed  Bagsby,  thrusting  back  his  chair, 
and  starting  with  his  body  erect  therein,  while  his  arms 
were  stretched  forth  to  their  full  extent,  and  his  shri- 
velled hands  grasped  the  elbows  thereof,  with  a  violence 
which  seemed  to  threaten  dislocation  to  the  ancient 
seat  of  his  plodding  industry!  "What?"  cried  he  again, 
and  his  lean  limbs  appeared  stiffened  beneath  their 
parchment  covering  into  an  unnatural  rigidity. 

"Precisely  so,"  calmly  resumed  the  gentleman  of  the 
black  paraphernalia,  "in  three  words,  I  wish  to  ask  your 
advice." 

These  words  had  an  almost  magical  effect  on  the 
man  of  law.  He  immediately  got  the  better  of  his  ri- 
gidity and  surprise,  recovered  his  self-possession  in  an 


THE   GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  157 

instant,  and  even  his  troublesome  cough  appeared  to  be 
very  considerably  amended;  for  he,  forthwith,  com- 
menced a  speech  of  no  small  length,  in  which  he  ac- 
knowledged that  he  feltsensibly  affected  by  the  confidence 
which  his  new  cHent  was  disposed  to  place  in  him:  that 
he  was  aware  how  frequently  he  was  engaged  in  suits 
of  various  descriptions,  and  that  really  the  offer  was  too 
flattering — too  tempting — too — and  then,  and  not  till 
then,  he  began  to  hem,  and  again  complain  of  his  cough. 

"Precisely  so,"  observed  the  gentleman  in  black. 
"Well,  there  must  be  a  beginning:  so  now,  as  the 
Comte,  by  running  away  from  the  country,  has  left  you 
perfectly  at  liberty,  I  wish  to  know  what,  in  his  case, 
you  would  advise  me  to  do?" 

"Humph!"  said  Bagsby,  "it  is  an  ugly  piece  of  busi- 
ness! but,  my  dear  Sir,  as  we  are,  comparatively  speak- 
ing, utter  strangers;  that  is,  I  mean,  in  comparison  with 
what  we  may  be  in  future — " 

"Precisely  so,"  observed  the  dark  gentleman;  "pro- 
ceed." 

"Well,"  continued  the  man  of  law,  "under  such  cir- 
cumstances, I  am  sure,  my  dear  Sir,  you  will  excuse  my 
freedom,  but,  ahem,  hem,  my  cough  is  very  trouble- 
some! under  these  circumstances,  I  say,  I  am  sure  you 
will  excuse, — but  it  is  a  rule  that  I  laid  down  for  myself 
many  years  ago,  when  I  first  went  into  business, — I  am 
sure  you  will  excuse,  but  really,  there  are  so  many — 
hem,  hem!  my  cough  is  very  troublesome." 

"Then  come  to  the  point  at  once,"  said  the  gentle- 


]58  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

man  in  black,  somewhat  testily,  "are  you  willing  to  as- 
sist me  with  your  advice?" 

"Not  unless  I  have  something  in  hand  to  begin  with," 
replied  old  Bagsby,  speaking  as  plain  as  though  he  had 
never  coughed  in  his  life. 

He  had  so  frequently,  in  the  course  of  his  practice, 
experienced  the  potency  of  this  proposition,  in  putting  an 
end  to  many  a  promising  conference,  that  even  the 
knowledge  of  his  cHent's  wealth  could  not  prevent  him 
from  watching  his  dingy  countenance  with  some  anxiety. 

But  the  dark  gentleman  was  evidently  gratified  by 
this  display  of  the  ruling  passion,  and  his  eyes  twinkled 
as  he  replied  "  Precisely  so.  Nothing  can  be  more  rea- 
sonable! I  have  no  idea  of  cheap  law.  It  would  be  a 
pretty  sort  of  thing  if  justice  were  to  he  given  away! 
quite  contrary  to  my  ideas  of  propriety,  I  assure  you. 
Shocking!  just  as  if  it  was  a  thing  of  no  value.  Ho,  ho, 
ho!  ha,  ha,  ha!  upon  my  darkness,  you're  a  capital 
old  fellow;  I  admire  your  rule  exceedingly,  and  I  hope 
it  will  become  general  throughout  the  profession.  So 
here  goes!"  Uttering  these  words,  he  began  to  pull  out 
from  the  pocket  of  hisblack  inexpressibles, the  long  black 
elastic  silk  purse,  of  which  we  have  so  frequently  had  oc- 
casion to  make  mention,  while  the  lean  lawyer  sat  with 
greedy  eye,  as  fold  after  fold  came  forth  from  its  dark 
abode,  like  a  cable  from  its  tier  on  shipboard,  and  were 
arranged  in  voluminous  coils  upon  the  ricketty  old 
office  table,  which  literally  began  to  groan  beneath 
their  weight.  Yet  still  the  interminable  process  went 
on,  while  the  black  purse  bearer,  to  whom  the  work 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         159 

was  as  easy  as  though  he  was  handhng  gossamer,  divert- 
ed himself  by  watching  the  changes  in  old  Bagsby's 
countenance  as  the  heap  accumulated. 

At  length  the  dark  elderly  gentleman  suspended  his 
labours,  though  the  end  of  his  magical  purse  had  not 
yet  become  visible,  as  it  extended  from  the  table  to  his 
pocket  like  a  rope.  What  its  precise  length  might  be, 
Bagsby  could  not  guess:  but,  judging  from  other  purses, 
it  might  be  about  half  way  out,  for  the  owner  thrust  his 
finger  and  thumb  into  an  opening,  such  as  may  be  seen 
in  the  centre  of  every-day  money  bags,  and  drew  forth 
a  coin  of  the  value  of  seven  shillings,  which  he  placed 
before  the  admiring  lawyer,  and  in  a  serious,  business 
like  tone,  and  with  a  face  of  surpassing  gravity,  said,  "I 
shall  thank  you  to  give  me  change,  that  is,  fourpence." 

The  ancient  lawyer  had  been  gazing  upon  the  won- 
der working  heap  that  was  piled  upon  his  table,  with  a 
strange  intensity;  and  his  feelings  were  of  a  most  com- 
plicated nature.  He  had  some  indistinct  notion  that  a 
great  part,  if  not  the  whole,  might  fall  to  his  share;  but, 
nevertheless,  there  stole  upon  him  an  inward  misgiving 
that  there  might  be  some  danger  in  receiving  a  fee 
from  such  a  client;  and  withal,  a  chilliness  and  fear,  and 
trembling,  took  possession  of  him;  the  rigidity  of  his 
muscles  gave  way,  and  his  knees  smote  one  against  the 
other.  Therefore  the  words  which  were  addressed  to 
him,  for  the  purpose  of  contrasting  his  usual  gains  with 
the  prospect  before  him,  fell  unheeded  upon  his  ear. 

Not  receiving  any  reply,  the  gentleman  in  black 


160  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

looked  up,  and  instantly  perceived  the  state  of  the 
case. 

*'Smell  this,  my  dear  Sir!"  he  exclaimed,  handing  one 
of  his  black  glass  bottles.  "There — there — you  are  bet- 
ter now,  I'm  sure.  What  has  been  the  matter  with  you?'* 

"Yes — hem — yes,"  replied  old  Bagsby,  snuffing  at  the 
specific,  "oh,  ah — it  was  nothing.  I  was  subject  to  such 
fits  when  I  was  a  boy:  but  it  is  a  long  time,  a  very  long 
time,  since  I  have  had  an  attack  of  the  kind." 

"What  do  you  call  it?"  inquired  the  gentleman  in 
black. 

"Oh,  nothing,  nothing,"  replied  the  lawyer,  endeav- 
ouring to  appear  quite  at  ease,  "it  was  only  a  recur- 
rence of  early  prejudices," 

'•^Only  a  recurrence  of  early  prejudices!"  exclaimed 
he  of  the  elastic  sable  purse.  Do  you  call  that  nothing? 
allow  me  to  tell  you.  Sir,  that  there  is  scarcely  any 
thing  to  which  I  so  decidedly  object  as  such  reminis- 
cences. And,  permit  me  to  say.  Sir,  that  a  gentleman 
of  your  experience  and  good  sense  ought  to  be  above 
such  follies  and  weaknesses.  What  old  woman's  tale 
have  you  got  into  your  head?  Really,  my  dear  friend," 
(here  he  changed  his  tone,  which  had  been  somewhat 
harsh,  into  one  of  mild  entreaty  and  persuasion)  "I  did 
not  expect  this  from  yon.  You  have  now  been  acquaint- 
ed with  me  for  some  years;  and  I  should  have  imagined 
that  the  ridiculous  fables  of  the  nursery,  which  repre- 
sent me  as  a  remarkably  ill-behaved  personage,  and 
positively  frightful  in  appearance,  had  long  since  been 
eradicated  from  your  recollection." 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         161 

"One  is  not  able,"  replied  Bagsby,  in  a  sort  of  semi- 
apologetical  manner,  ''to  command  one's  feelings  at  all 
times." 

"So  it  seems,"  observed  the  gentleman  in  black  dryly, 
"but,  one  would  think  your  own  senses  sufficient  evi- 
dence to  contradict  the  trumpery  fabrications  to  which 
I  allude.  Look  at  me,  and  say  if  you  perceive  any 
•thing  disagreeable  or  even  ungentlemanlj  in  my  ap- 
pearance." 

Bagsby  looked  up,  and  such  was  the  effect  of  the 
slight  attack  which  he  had  undergone  from  "early  im- 
pressions," that  he  spake  but  the  truth  when  he  replied, 
^'I  must  say  that  I  have  seen  you  look  better  in  every 
respect." 

"If  such  be  your  opinion,"  said  the  dark  elderly  gen- 
tleman, "it  is  useless  for  us  to  attempt  to  proceed  to 
business  this  morning,"  and  he  immediately  began  to 
haul  home  the  coils  of  his  long  black  silk  purse  from  the 
table,  into  his  black  breeches'  pocket. 

Bagsby  looked  on  and  sighed,  and  was  just  in  the  act 
of  calling  out  "stop!"  when  the  door  of  his  office  opened, 
and  in  walked  Messieurs  Maxwell  and  Ledger.  The 
scene  now  changed  as  quickly  as  in  a  pantomime.  The 
black  purse  rushed  hke  a  live  thing  into  its  place,  and 
its  owner  arose  and  took  a  polite  leave  of  the  lawyer, 
and  bowing  to  the  two  other  gentlemen,  ventured  to 
remark  that  he  would  not  interrupt  their  business 
with  Mr.  Bagsby,  as  he  was  just  about  to  take  his  de- 
parture. 

o2 


162  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN   BLACK. 

"The  sooner  the  better,"  replied  Mr.  Ledger  sternly, 
pointing,  at  the  same  time,  to  the  door;  and  straight- 
way the  gentleman  in  black  sneaked  off  in  a  very  crest- 
fallen sort  of  manner,  as  the  vulgar  saying  is,  "with  hisi 
tail  between  his  legs,"  insomuch  that  the  lawyer  was 
astonished  at  perceiving  the  extreme  diminution  of  his 
importance,  and  the  mean  and  abject  manner  in  which 
he  made  his  exit,  keeping  ever  at  a  most  respectful  dis-» 
tance  from  the  stern  and  upright  old  merchant. 

Old  Bagsby  is  not  the  only  individual  who  has  been 
saved  from  the  machinations  of  the  gentleman  in  black, 
by  the  recurrence  of  "early  prejudices,"  and  the  com- 
pany of  those  whose  presence  is  particularly  objection- 
able to  that  personage. 

If  any  consolation  were  requisite  to  the  man  of  law 
for  the  disappearance  of  the  long  black  purse,  it  was 
immediately  forthcoming  in  the  shape  of  full  and  liberal 
payment  for  all  expenses,  charges,  attendances,  consul- 
tations, stamps,  messages,  &c.  &c.,  incident  upon  the 
case,  and  in  the  transactions  of  the  Comte  D'Ormalle 
during  his  visit  to  England.  When  these  matters  were 
arranged,  Mr.  Maxwell  stated  that,  although  the  Comte 
had  left  England,  it  did  not  follow  that  he  should  be 
forsaken  by  his  friends;  and  therefore  he  proposed  that 
as  soon  as  Mr.  Bagsby  could  make  it  convenient,  he 
should  follow  him  to  Paris. 

To  this  suggestion  the  lawyer  would  not,  at  first,  lis- 
ten for  an  instant;  but  rose  from  his  seat,  and  paced  the 
room  in  very  evident  and  great  agitation,  muttering 
"me — me — what?  I  go  abroad!     Me!  why  I  never  was 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         163 

more  than  ten  miles  out  of  town  in  my  life,  except  once, 
and  then  I'd  better  have  been  in  bed  all  the  while," 
and  forthwith  he  began  a  long  and  tedious  tale  about 
a  journey  to  Bath,  which  was  attended  with  inconve- 
niences, incivility,  overcharges,  narrow  escapes,  imposi- 
tions, and  all  the  various  et  cetera,  by  which  "shabby" 
or  inexperienced  travellers  are  beset,  and  with  the 
narration  of  which  they  inflict  no  small  penalty  on  such 
as  are  compelled  to  listen  thereunto.  The  listeners  in 
the  present  case,  however,  had  an  interest  at  stake  in 
keeping  the  story-teller  in  good  humour;  and  Mr.  Led- 
ger gave  a  significant  nod  to  his  partner,  which  said, 
"let  the  old  fellow  have  rope  enough!  give  him  time." 
So  when  the  elaborate  tale  was  ended,  they  extolled 
him  exceedingly  for  the  judgment  and  discrimination 
of  character  that  he.  had  evinced  in  the  said  journey, 
and  declared  that  he  was  perfectly  competent  to  travel 
into  any  part  of  the  known  world.  And  so  it  was  that 
old  Bagsby  was  caught  in  his  own  trap,  for  he  had 
really,  while  speaking  of  his  unfitness  for  locomotion, 
been  endeavouring  to  show  off;  and,  like  most  of  us, 
he  was  highly  dehghted  at  receiving  a  compliment  up- 
on his  knowledge  of  that,  respecting  which  he  was  in 
utter  ignorance.  In  common  with  the  generality  of 
men  who  live  apart  from  the  world,  he  had  a  very  suf- 
ficiently good  opinion  of  his  own  talents  and  acquire- 
ments. Therefore,  when  he  spake  of  his  ignorance  of 
French  customs,  manners,  and  laws,  it  was  a  mere  feint 
or  ruse  to  enhance  the  value  of  his  services;  for  he 
verily  believed  himself  to  be  a  match  for  the  gentle- 


164  I'H^    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

man  in  black,  in  whatsoever  part  of  the  world  he 
might  happen  to  meet  him.  Such  being  the  case,  he 
was  soon  persuaded,  by  liberal  promises  held  out  to 
him  by  those  who  had  ever  acted  liberally  towards 
him,  to  proceed  with  the  business  in  question,  even  into 
the  French  courts;  and  immediately  the  consultation 
was  at  an  end,  he  began  to  make  preparations  for  his 
departure. 

On  the  fourth  day  after  these  events,  a  packet  sailed 
from  Dover  for  the  opposite  port  of  Calais,  with  what 
is  termed  a  side  wind;  and  on  the  lower  or  leeward 
side  of  the  said  packet,  sat  the  lean  lawyer  of  Lyons  Inn, 
in  a  woeful  state  of  agitation,  both  mental  and  corporeal. 
It  was  the  first  time  that  he  had  beheld  the  sea;  and, 
consequently,  as  the  little  vessel  heeled  and  pitched 
about  upon  the  face  of  the  billows,  he  imagined  that  she 
was  in  imminent  danger  of  upsetting,  and  was  literally, 
undergoing  the  horrors  of  a  storm.  The  keenness  of  the 
sea  breeze,  moreover,  affected  him  not  a  little,  and 
rendered  it  very  desirable  that  his  poor  body  should  be 
enveloped  in  certain  paraphernalia,  which  he  had  pur- 
chased for  an  expected  nocturnal  journey  overland, 
and  which,  for  economy's  sake,  he  had  packed  up  in 
his  portmanteau.  But  that  was  deposited  in  the  cabin 
below,  whereunto  his  legs  refused  to  carry  him;  and 
alas!  there  was  no  ringing  the  bell  for  Jerry.  So  the 
poor  old  fellow  sat  and  shivered,  and  thought  of  that  mea- 
gre worthy,  and  of  the  quiet  and  steadiness  of  Lyons 
Inn,  and,  ever  and  anon,  peeped  through  his  watery 
eyes  upon  the  lessening  clifTs  of  his  native  land.     From 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         165 

this  deplorable  state  of  helpless  endurance,  he  was 
roused  into  activity  by  the  imperative  demands  of  the 
God  Neptune;  therefore,  he  arose,  and,  much  to  his 
mortification,  superadded  to  the  usual  tribute,  a  pair 
of  spectacles  and  a  new  hat  and  wig,  which  went 
floating  astern  amid  a  burst  of  laughter  from  some  of 
the  unfeeling  crew.  But  there  were  other  good  Sama- 
ritans on  board,  who  pitied  the  lawyer's  case;  and  he 
was  soon  enveloped  in  a  coarse  seaman's  blue  coat,  and 
a  striped  woollen  cap  was  placed  upon  his  head,  and, 
thus  metamorphosed,  he  sat  in  doleful  dumps,  as  though 
he  had  been  regularly  enlisted  into  the  sea  service. 

"Ha!  ha!  ha!  laughed  a  deep  hollow  voice  close  at 
his  elbow,  *'why,  old  Jerry  himself  would  hardly  know 
yoii  now,  my  dear  Sir.  How  do  you  find  yourself? 
Allow  me  to  offer  you  a  pinch  of  snuff." 

Bagsby  turned  sharply  round,  and  was  not  a  little 
startled  to  find  the  gentleman  in  black  sitting  at  his 
side,  apparently  quite  at  ease.  "What,"  continued  the 
dark  intruder,  "you  are  surprised,  eh?  precisely  so!  I 
perceive  it;  but,  the  fact  is,  my  dear  Sir,  I  am  a  great 
traveller — at  home — every  where.  Quite  a  cosmopo- 
lite; and,  wherever  there  is  any  business  to  be  done, 
there  I  am.  So  I  thought,  as  you  would  be  quite  at 
leisure  during  the  passage,  and  we  shall  be  secure  from 
interlopers,  we  might  as  well  take  this  opportunity  of 
talking  over  the  affair  in  which  we  are  respectively 
engaged." 

"I  beg  your  pardon,  Sir,"  replied  the  lawyer,  distant- 
ly, and  assuming  as  much  dignity  in  his  new,  or  rather, 


166  THE    GENTLEMAN   IN    BLACK. 

old  dress,  as  if  enveloped  in  the  Chancellor's  robes,  »'I 
am  not  at  leisure." 

"Precisely  so,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  in  a 
most  imperturbed  manner,  "that  is  as  you  think.  But 
the  fact  is,  I  have  a  proposition  to  make  to  you,  which, 
as  a  man  of  sense,  observation  and  calculation,  I. am 
confident  you  will  find  much  more  to  your  advantage 
than  going  on  this  wild-goose  chase.  I  have  made  a 
brief  memorandum  on  the  subject.  Just  do  me  the? 
favour  to  look  over  these  papers." 

"I  have  lost  my  spectacles,"  replied  old  Bagsby,  sulkily. 

"My  dear  Sir,"  said  the  man  of  the  black-edged  pa- 
pers, "I  will  lend  you  mine  with  pleasure,"  and  dipping 
his  hand  into  the  black  bag,  which  stood  as  usual  be- 
tween his  legs,  he  drew  forth  a  black  shagreen  cafee, 
from  which  he  took  a  pair  of  spectacles,  mounted  in 
black  tortoise-shell,  and  politely  handed  them  to  the 
lawyer,  who  forthwith  began  reading,  and  seemed 
much  interested  in  what  he  read:  and,  in  the  mean- 
while, the  gentleman  in  black  walked  up  and  down  the 
deck,  taking  snufF  with  as  much  sang  froid  and  ease  as 
though  he  had  been  on  terra  firraa.  An  ejaculation 
from  Bagsby,  however,  effectually  disturbed  his  equa- 
.nirnity,  and  he  snatched  his  spectacles  from  the  old 
fellow's  eyes,  and  exclaimed,  "you  know,  Sir,  I  have  a 
particular  antipathy  to  swearing!" 

"My  dear  Sir,"  said  the  lawyer,  "allow  me  to  finish. 
The  scheme  is  wonderful!" 

"Precisely  so,"  replied  the  owner  of  the  spectacles, 
resuming  his  seat.     "Loans  to  young  and  thoughtless 


THE    GENTLEMAN   IN    BLACK.  167 

spendthrifts,  are  by  far  the  best  speculations  in  which 
you  can  employ  yourself.  What  with  immediate  profits, 
accumulating  interest,  extended  connection,  introduc- 
tions and  future  contingencies,  upon  my  darkness!  I 
know  nothing  equal  to  them.  And,  as  for  the  needful, 
I  am  sure  I  shall  always  be  ready  to  advance  on  your 
oion  security.  But  read  on" — and,  thus  saying,  he  re- 
turned the  spectacles. 

It  has  frequently  been  a  matter  of  doubt  with  old 
Bagsby,  whether  he  really  did  read  anything  on  that 
occasion,  or  whether  the  spectacles  he  wore  had  not 
a  magical  effect  upon  his  optics;  for  he  seemed,  as  in  a 
vision,  to  behold  a  succession  of  individuals,  many  of 
them  personally  known  to  him,  approaching  and  prof- 
fering him  securities  for  immense  loans.  Then  came 
others  of  the  higher  class  of  commoners;  and  anon,  fol- 
lowed nobles  of  the  first  rank,  either  for  the  same  pur- 
poses, or  to  effect  exchanges  of  immense  extent  and 
value.  And,  as  he  looked  on,  the  old  lawyer's  self-im- 
portance gradually  increased:  and  he  beheld  his  profes- 
sional duties  so  much  extended,  that  his  ofiices,  instead 
of  being  confined  to  three  dark  rooms  in  Lyons  Inn, 
seemed  to  occupy  the  whole  of  one  side  of  one  of  the  new 
squares,  including  separate  departments  for  conveyan- 
cing, and  every  other  species  of  legal  transactions.  On 
and  on  went  the  process,  and  princes,  dukes,  and  mar- 
quesses appeared  to  be  waiting  his  convenience,  till  at 
length,  in  the  portly  form  of  one,  he  recognized  Majesty 
itself;  and  so  utterly  was  the  old  fellow  lost  in  the  de- 
lusion, that  he  exclaimed — "It  is  the  King  himself,  God 


]gg  THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK. 

bless  him!"  In  an  instant  the  spectacles  were  snatched 
from  his  eyes,  and  instead  of  being,  as  it  were,  enthron- 
ed in  the  midst  of  his  suite  of  gorgeous  rooms,  he  sat, 
a  poor  lean,  shrivelled,  meagre  old  man,  trembling  and 
helpless  as  a  child,  at  the  mercy  of  the  winds  and 
waves,  while  the  gentleman  in  black  stood  scowling 
over  him. 

There  are  certain  poisons,  which,  when  exhibited 
in  too  great  quantities,  have  a  tendency  to  counteract 
their  own  deadly  effects  on  the  human  system:  and 
thus  it  was  with  the  wonderful  prospects  which  the 
dark  designer  had  presented  to  his  intended  victim. 
He  had  overdosed  him;  and  he  plainly  perceived  his 
error,  and  was  about  to  plan  a  remedy,  when  the 
lawyer's  good  genius  interfered  in  the  shape  of  a  some- 
what mountainous  wave  which  broke  over  the  little 
vessel  and  pitched  him  forward  upon  the  deck,  where 
he  fell  upon  his  knees,  and,  in  that  position,  under  the 
influence  of  bodily  fear,  he  uttered  his  third  and  most 
fervent  ejaculation. 

Thus,  in  consequence  of  his  loyalty  and  seasonable 
fear,  Bagsby  was  freed,  for  a  time,  from  temptation  to 
swerve  from  the  path  of  duty.  The  gentleman  in  black 
was  no  more  seen  on  board  during  the  voyage;  and 
when  they  arrived  at  Calais,  there  was  no  small  up- 
roar among  the  sailors  at  missing  the  **dingy  fellow 
that  seemed  to  have  his  sea  legs  on  board,"  and  who, 
they  vowed,  must  have  fallen  over-board,  as  they  would 
defy  even  the  old  one  himself  to  "bilk  his  passage,  ,or 
escape  the  Douaniers  on  landing." 


CHAPTER  IX. 

Previous  to  Bagsby's  arrival  in  Paris,  it  will  be  ne- 
cessary to  look  a  little  into  the  state  of  things  there. 

After  the  Comte's  departure,  matters  went  on  much 
as  usual  at  his  hotel  for  the  space  of  a  week;  and  then 
M.  le  Comte  de  Tien  a  la  Cour,  who  prided  himself  not 
a  little  on  his  skill  in  such  matters,  was  much  scanda- 
lized at  the  manner  in  which  that  most  important  meal, 
dinner,  was  served;  and  he  could  not  avoid  saying  some 
severe  things,  to  certain  of  the  servants  in  waiting.  He 
had,  however,  too  much  of  the  (good  in  that  respect) 
old  school  about  him,  to  begin  scolding  regularly  in  the 
presence  of  a  few  guests,  who  did  him  the  honour  of 
taking  their  commons  with  him  "en  famille;"  and,  there- 
fore, satisfied  himself,  for  the  moment,  with  a  glass  of 
champagne,  and  pulling  a  face  and  pushing  away  from 
him  portions  of  certain  dishes  which,  truth  to  tell,  well 
merited  the  name  he  gave  them  of  "detestable,"  inas* 
much  as  they  were  sent  in  by  the  "Marchand"  of  "Pa- 
tisserie" for  the  express  purpose  of  (as  we  say  in  Eng- 
land) "getting  up  a  row"  for  the  sake  of  coming  to  an 
explanation.  The  fact  was,  that  the  said  "Marchand" 
had  heard  an  extraordinary  tale  relative  to  the  G)mte 


170  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

D'Ormalle's  connexion  with  the  gentleman  in  black, 
which  tale  he  had  most  stoutly  taken  upon  himself  to 
contradict,  because  he  had  had  the  honour  to  serve  the 
table  of  M.  le  Comte  (and  no  nobleman,  he  was  confi- 
dent, kept  a  better  table)  for  many  years,  and  had  been 
always  regularly  paid  whenever  the  Comte  visited 
Paris.  But,  alas!  such  is  the  fleeting  nature  of  even  a 
good  name,  that,  when  M.  le  Comte  suddenly  left  Paris 
without  discharging  his  bill,  he  began  to  doubt.  There- 
fore, when  the  Abbe  Beueton  called  upon  him,  (as  he 
felt  himself  bound  to  do,  seeing  that  his  patron  the 
Comte  was  but  ill-disposed  toward  the  fricandeaux,  &c. 
of  the  said  artist,)  the  said  artist  spake  of  his  wife  and 
his  large,  and  increasing,  little  family;  and,  after  brief 
explanation,  came  to  the  usual  issue  of  "a  large  bill  to 
make  up,"  "disappointments,"  "arrangements  to  make, 
&c.  &c.,"  all  which  the  abbe  said  had  nothing  to  do 
with  the  matter  in  question;  but  which,  nevertheless, 
he  should  represent  in  the  proper  quarter.  The  poor 
Comtesse  Emilie  had  never,  since  her  marriage  up  to 
that  period,  known  what  trouble  or  anxiety  were.  She 
had  spent  her  time  in  a  constant  round,  or  rather,  a 
series  of  circles  of  gayety  and  dissipation.  As  for  money, 
she  had  no  idea  of  its  value.  It  seemed  to  her  merely 
a  sort  of  custom  to  put  one's  hand  in  one's  pocket  if  one 
ost  at  cards,  or  hold  it  out  and  receive  something  if  one 
won.  And  as  for  bills,  they  were  to  be  referred  to  the 
steward  or  the  Comte.  The  case  now,  however,  was 
very  different.  She  had  no  money,  the  steward  had  no 
money,  and  Monsieur  le  Comte  was  gone  nobody  knew 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  171 

where.  At  first  it  struck  her  as  a  very  good  joke,  an 
exceedingly  ridiculous  sort  of  distress,  and  so  she  went 
and  told  her  most  perpendicular  father,  who  averred 
that,  so  far  from  conceiving  the  thing  to  be  a  joke,  he 
considered  it  to  be  a  very  serious,  or  as  Bagsby  would 
have  said,  "a  very  ugly  piece  of  business." 

"But,  nevertheless,  my  dear  Emilie,"  he  continued, 
"as  it  really  makes  very  little  difference  to  me  where 
I  live,  I  shall  make  it  a  point  not  to  leave  you  unpro- 
tected in  your  present  situation,  but  wait  and  see  the 
end  of  the  affair.  In  the  meanwhile,  despatch  your 
toilet  as  quickly  as  possible,  or  we  shall  be  late  at  the 
Duchesse  de  Cherceleon's  select  party." 

To  that  party  and  divers  others  they  went;  and  day 
after  day  passed  on,  yet  the  Comte  D'Ormalle  came 
not,  and  the  poor  Comtesse  remembered  with  grief, 
and  something  very  nearly  akin  to  self-reproach,  the 
manner  in  which  they  had  last  parted.  Duns  became 
more  frequent,  and  less  poUte  and  ceremonious;  and 
even  her  own  maid,  Lisette  (who,  by  the  way,  firmly 
believed  that  the  Comte  had  been  carried  off  by  the 
gentleman  in  black)  began  to  exhibit  symptoms  of 
peevishness  and  disrespect.'* 

"Sweet  are  the  uses  of  adversity!"  The  Comtesse 
sat  alone,  removed  from  the  summer  flies  of  her  pros- 
perity, and  thought  on  bye-gone  days  of  happiness  with 
her  dear  Louis — how  he  had  anticipated  her  every 
wish;  and  then  she  recollected  the  princely  style  in 
which,  without  hesitation  or  remark,  he  had  so  long 
supported  their,  or  rather  her  splendid  establishment  in 


172  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

Paris.  It  had  been  the  envy  of  all.  What  was  the 
consequence?  Where  was  poor  dear  Louis?  Had  he 
destroyed  himself?  No!  That  was  too  horrible.  She 
would  not  beheve  that,  *'And,  yet,"  she  continued, 
"when  I  think  on  my  extravagance!  But,  oh!  I  dare 
not  look  to  the  future!"  and  then  the  poor  repentant 
lady  wept. 

Let  it  not  be  supposed  that  her  nature  was  so  com- 
pletely altered  as  to  be  ever  in  this  frame  of  mind.  But 
in  such  a  mood  she  was,  when  Comte  Louis,  after  his 
narrow  escape  from  London,  arrived  in  Paris.  She  had 
been  thinking  of  him  alone  for,  at  least,  ten  minutes, 
and  had  even  murmured  his  name,  and  said,  "Oh!  what 
would  1  give  to  see  him!"  when  he  rushed  into  the 
apartment,  and  in  a  moment  she  was  in  his  arms,  vehe- 
mently sobbing,  and  expressing  as  well  as  she  could  at 
intervals,  her  delight.  And  the  poor  Comte!  He  per- 
ceived there  was  no  "acting  in  the  case,  as  he  had  whi- 
lome  suspected  in  bye-gone  days.  All  was  real;  and  he 
pressed  her  to  his  heart  in  fervent  joy  and  gladness. 
Neither  of  them  had  been  so  happy  for  years. 

The  next  morning  all  the  duns  were  dismissed  in  a 
way  perfectly  satisfactory  to  their  feelings;  and  then 
the  Comte  visited  Messieurs  Lafitte,  Barillons,  and  the 
other  bankers  to  whom  remittances  had  been  sent  in 
consequence  of  his  transactions  in  England,  and  found 
the  amount  of  his  balances  so  immense,  in  French 
livres,  that  he  began  to  think  he  should  have  a  hand- 
some surplus,  after  discharging  the  whole  of  any  ac- 
counts on  black-edged  paper  which  the  gentleman  in 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.       173 

black  could  produce  against  him.  A  little  considera- 
tion, however,  convinced  him  of  his  error  on  that  head, 
and,  for  a  short  time,  depressed  his  spirits.  Indeed, 
there  are  very  few  of  us  who  would  not  be  somewhat 
startled  at  beholding  the  sum  total  of  what  all  our  ex- 
penses and  extravagances  would  amount  to  in  eight 
and  twenty  years.  So  the  Comte  D'Ormalle  sighed, 
and  ordered  his  carriage  and  took  a  ride  with  his  dear 
Emilie  in  the  Boulevards,  in  order  that  his  arrival 
might  be  generally  known;  and  the  consequences  of 
his  reappearance  were  a  multitude  of  calls  from  the 
Comtesse's  dear  friends,  and  a  visit  from  the  old  bishop 
to  himself,  on  particular  and  private  business. 

The  ancient  and  formal  ecclesiastic  was  far  too  te- 
dious to  be  endured  in  detail  by  the  reader.  Let  it 
suffice,  therefore,  to  observe,  that  he  still  kept  harping 
upon  the  alienated  Church  lands,  declared  that  he  had 
thought  much  on  the  Comte's  singular  case;  but  really 
— he  scarcely  knew,  &c.  &c., — and  finally,  that  he 
had  thought  fit  to  convene  a  sort  of  council, — a  few 
learned  friends,  men  of  distinguished  parts,  who  had 
already  held  several  meetings  on  the  subject,  and  were 
to  assemble  again  on  the  morrow, — when  he  trusted 
that  the  Comte  would  have  the  politeness  to  attend. 

On  the  morrow,  while  the  Comte  was  debating  on 
the  subject  within  his  own  mind,  he  was  most  agree- 
ably surprised  by  the  appearance  of  his  lean  legal  advi- 
ser, poor  Bagsby,  who,  in  spite  of  the  alarm,  fatigue 
and  battering  that  he  had  undergone,  instantly  decided 

on  attending  <'the  Committee,"  as  he  called  it. 
p  2 


174  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

"There  will  be  no  business  done  in  our  first  inter- 
view," said  he,  I  understand  the  nature  of  such  meet- 
ings, and  shall  plead  fatigue  as  a  reason  for  not  entering 
deeply  into  the  subject.  But  I  shall  have  an  opportu- 
nity of  making  my  observations,  and  of  judging  what 
sort  of  people  we  have  to  deal  with." 

The  council  in  question  were  assembled  in  a  circu- 
lar Chapter-house-looking  building,  connected  with  one 
of  the  religious  establishments  in  Paris,  which  it  would 
scarcely  be  correct  to  name.  The  Abbe  of  Grandes- 
dimes  was  president,  and  the  lowest  place  at  the  board 
was  occupied  by  brother  Dodun,  who  was  admitted 
amongst  his  august  superiors,  in  consequence  of  hia 
having  been  the  first  person  entrusted  with  the  busi- 
ness in  question. 

"So  we  may  expect  to  see  the  Comte  to-day,"  said 
the  president,  taking  his  seat.  "What  time  do  we 
dine?  Whose  turn  is  it  to  order  dinner?  Ah?  I  re- 
member now,  my  dear  Franchelippe,  we  may  trust  to 
you  always.  But  really,  it  seemed  to  me,  that  the  last 
time  we  dined  at  Very's,  we  were  not  precisely  treated 
with  that  sort  of  respect  which  I  could  have  wished. 
These  miserable  English  at  the  restaurateurs  are  quite 
a  nuisance!" 

"Les  betes!"  exclaimed  Abbe  Nigaudin,  shrugging 
up  his  shoulders  and  elevating  his  eyebrows  in  an  at- 
tempt to  look  wise. 

After  a  few  more  observations  and  questions  equally 
important,  a  lean,  cadaverous  looking  member  of  the 
council,  Rateleux  by  name,  put  on  his  spectacles,  and 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  175 

opening  a  huge  manuscript  volume  that  lay  before  him, 
said,  that,  if  the  president  would  give  him  leave,  he 
would  read  a  few  extracts  from  certain  scarce  works 
of  the  ancient  fathers,  which  appeared  in  some  mea- 
sure, to  bear  upon  the  case  in  point.  And,  then,  after 
hemming  three  or  four  times,  he  began  his  task  in  a 
slow,  monotonous  tone,  and,  doubtless,  the  hearers  were 
much  edified  thereby,  as  what  he  read  was  written  in 
good  old  monkish  Latin. 

"When  this  process  had  gone  on  for  some  time,  it 
was  interrupted  by  a  gentleman  tapping  at  the  door; 
and  brother  Dodun,  by  virtue  of  his  office,  as  no  menials 
were  allowed  to  be  present  at  this  important  consulta- 
tion, went  to  ascertain  the  cause. 

"The  Comte  D'Ormalle  is  come,"  said  he,  gently,  on 
his  return  to  the  table.  Then  followed  a  whispering 
conference  among  the  brethren,  whether  they  should 
awaken  the  president;  but  that  pillar  of  the  church 
missed  the  soothing  tones  of  brother  Rateleux,  and 
saved  them  the  trouble  of  deciding. 

"Admit  the  Comte  by  all  means,"  said  he  most  gra- 
ciously, as  soon  as  he  understood  the  state  of  the  case: 
and  brother  Dodun  forthwith  performed  his  office,  and 
requested  the  Comte  to  walk  in.  The  Comte  accor- 
dingly stepped  forward,  and,  with  a  slight  nod  of  ac- 
knowledgment to  the  humble  brother,  "en  passant," 
advanced  towards  the  table  where  the  dignitaries  were 
sitting.  Dodun  then  attempted  to  close  the  door;  but 
finding  some  obstacle  in  the  v^^ay,  peeped  behind  to  as- 
certain what  it  might  be,  and  was  in  no  small  degree 


176  THE    GENTLEMAN   IN    BLACK. 

astonished  and  dismayed  at  finding  his  face  close  to  that 
of  our  old  friend  Bags  by,  who  pushed  forward  without 
ceremony,  and  followed  the  Comte. 

A  fearful  exclamation  from  the  janitor  communicated 
his  alarm  to  the  council  board,  and  there  was  a  gene- 
ral "sauve  qui  peut"  movement  among  their  reverences, 
which  was  with  some  difficulty  arrested  by  the  Comte, 
who  assured  them,  on  his  honour,  that  the  gentleman 
was  mly  his  lawyer.  Yet,  for  some  minutes,  there  was 
a  dead  silence  at  the  board,  and  the  members  thereof 
eyed  the  intruder  and  his  bag  with  looks  of  suspicion: 
and  it  must  be  confessed  that  Bagsby's  appearance  was 
far  from  prepossessing;  for,  not  being  able  to  procure  a 
wig  of  his  own  pattern  to  supply  the  place  of  that  which 
had  gone  to  sea,  he  had  cheapened  a  second-hand  "Bru- 
tus," thinking  it  would  do  very  well  till  his  return 
home.  Now  the  said  '"Brutus"  was  black,  and  large, 
and  full  made,  and  overshadowed,  with  a  profusion  in- 
dicatory of  much  earlier  life,  the  pale  and  shrivelled 
face  of  the  ancient  lawyer;  so  that  the  "tout  ensemble" 
was  most  unnatural.  Added  to  this,  Bagsby,  like  most 
other  men  who  do  not  often  enter  into  a  joke,  when  he 
did  relish  one,  enjoyed  it  ^exceedingly;  and  the  mis- 
take which  had  just  occurred,  tickled  the  old  fellow's 
fancy  so  much,  that  he  could  not  avoid  chuckling  and 
cachinnating  to  himself  in  a  manner  that  appeared  very 
unseemly  in  such  august  presence. 

Brother  Dodun,  obeying  a  graceful  wave  of  the  pre- 
sident's hand,  placed  a  chair  for  the  Comte,  and  Bags- 
by thereupon,  without  waiting  for  any  invitation,  took 


THE  gentleman' IN  BLACK.         177 

one  for  himself:  and  then  the  abbe  of  Grandesdimes,  in 
his  official  capacity,  addressed  the  Comte  D'Ormalle  in 
a  set  speech,  wherein  he  took  occasion  to  say  much  of 
the  condescension,  paternal  feelings,  learning,  (fee.  &c., 
of  their  venerable  and  noble  diocesan,  by  whom  they 
had  been  deputed  to  examine  into  this  very  mysterious 
affair.  ''We  have,"  he  continued,  '-already  made  con- 
siderable progress:  but  there  yet  remain  certain  deep 
and  knotty  points  to  be  investigated,  on  one  of  which 
we  were  deliberating  at  the  moment  of  your  arrival.  I 
assure  you,  Monsieur  Le  G)mte,  the  laity  have  little 
idea  of  the  way  in  which  we  of  the  clergy  occupy  our 
time — the  midnight  oil — the " 

Here  old  Bagsby's  cough  was  extremely  troublesome, 
and  the  Abbe  Nigaudin  muttered  "Bete!" 

"But,"  continued  the  president,  "far  be  it  from  me  to 
arrogate,  either  for  myself  or  brethren,  any  other  me- 
rit than  what  we  may  fairly  claim  for  patience  and  per- 
severance. For  those  qualities,  my  son,  you  may  faith- 
fully depend  upon  us;  and,  in  the  meanwhile,  remem- 
ber that  the  power  of  the  church  is  immense.  It  is 
true  that  I  and  my  brethren  here  are  but  individual 
and  humble  sons  thereof;  but,  nevertheless,  we  venture 
to  counsel  you  not  to  despair;  particularly  as  you  are 
possessed  of  the  means  of  doing  good." 

Here  the  president  sat  down  in  a  state  of  exhaustion, 
and  then  there  was  a  whispering  and  looking  at  watches 
round  the  table,  and  then  an  adjournment  until  the  fol- 
lowing day.  On  rising  from  table,  each  of  the  members 
paid  their  respects  to  the  Comte,  and  each  in  his  turn, 


178  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

rang  the  changes  upon  the  old  topic,  "the  immense 
power  of  the  church,  &c."  except  brother  Rateleux, 
who  squeezed  the  Comte's  hand,  shook  his  own  head, 
and  said  it  was  an  ugly  piece  of  business. 

Bagsby  attended  the  council  on  the  following  day,  in 
the  character  of  plenipotentiary  for  the  Comte,  and 
caused  a  great  sensation  by  affirming  that  he  would  not 
advance  a  single  louis,  on  account  of  any  expenses  that 
might  be  incurred,  until  the  business  was  settled. 

This  determination,  in  which  the  lawyer  was  inflexi- 
ble, caused  the  despatch  of  a  messenger  to  Rome,  from 
whence  he  returned  laden  with  official  documents  called 
absolutions,  indulgences,  &c.,  which  professed  to  exone- 
rate the  Comte  from  the  consequences  of  the  various 
sins  which  he  had  agreed  and  been  compelled  to  com- 
mit: and  then  the  gentleman  in  black  made  his  appear- 
ance before  the  board,  to  argue  the  case  in  person. 
The  uncomfortable  feelings  that  simultaneously  took 
possession  of  all  the  ecclesiastics,  when  he  first  intro- 
duced himself,  very  soon  subsided:  and  he,  after  making 
his  obeisance  in  a  style  of  courtly  elegance,  took  a  seat 
at  the  board,  and  pulled  a  variety  of  black-edged  pa- 
pers, tied  with  black  tape,  from  his  black  bag,  and 
placing  them  on  the  table,  looked  round  him  with  an 
air  of  calm  composure  that  seemed  to  say,  "Here  I 
am,  ready  to  answer  anybody  who  has  anything  to  say 
to  me." 

In  the  meanwhile  Bagsby  had  attached  himself  to  a 
member  of  the  council,  who  was  likewise  a  Jesuit,  and, 
consequently,  well  versed  in  the  science  of  "mystifica- 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  179 

tion."  These  two  worthies  sate  opposite  the  gentleman 
in  black,  to  whom  the  lawyer  nodded  in  a  knowing 
oblique  manner,  which  spake  as  plain  as  nod  could 
speak  "I'll  bother  you  yet,  old  fellow!" 

After  the  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  had  been  read 
over,  the  president  made  a  speech,  during  which,  we 
are  sorry  to  say,  old  Bagsby's  cough  was  again  exceed- 
ingly troublesome,  and  the  dingy  plaintiff  himself  was 
compelled  to  take  a  pinch  of  blackguard  to  prevent 
him  from  being  guilty  of  the  ungentlemanly  vice  of 
yawning. 

At  length  the  packet  from  Rome  was  produced  in 
due  form,  and  the  various  documents  were  read,  by 
which  it  appeared  that  the  Comte  was  relieved  from 
all  the  consequences  of  the  past,  and  was  freed  from 
all  allegiance,  suit,  service,  &c.,  towards  the  gentleman 
in  black  for  the  future,  any  bonds,  promises,  &c.  &c. 
to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

When  the  reader  was  silent,  the  president  arose,  and 
waving  his  arm  with  great  dignity,  exclaimed,  "Behold 
the  power  of  the  Church!  Great,  wonderful,  astonish- 
ing, marvellous,  merciful,  infallible  is  the — hem — In 
short  the  business  is  now  at  an  end — Monsieur  le  Comte 
is  perfectly  freed  from  the  toils. — Ahem.  As  for 
you.  Monsieur,  (turning  to  the  sable  vested  gentleman) 
you  have  no  longer  any  demand  on,  or  control  over, 
him;  therefore — therefore,  allow  me  to  recommend  you 
to  retire." 

"By  no  means,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  "I 
cannot  admit,  for  a  moment,  that  those  documents  in 


180  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

any  manner  affect  the  validity  of  the  Comte's  bond, 
voluntarily  entered  into  with  me.  I  consider  him  to 
be  in  the  same  situation,  as  regards  me,  with  that  of  a 
subject  towards  his  sovereign  to  whom  he  has  sworn 
allegiance." 

*'Bah!"  exclaimed  Franchelippe.  "And  supposing 
he  were?  The  Pope,  you  know,  has  the  power  of  ex- 
communicating the  sovereign,  and  absolving  the  sub- 
ject from  allegiance." 

"As  to  the  matter  of  excommunication,"  replied  the 
gentleman  of  the  black  bag,  "it  may  be  as  you  say,  for 
aught  I  know  or  care;  but  from  the  best  authorities,  I 
learn  that  he  has  not  the  power  of  absolving  any  sub- 
ject from  his  allegiance." 

"You  are  in  a  state  of  deplorable  ignorance.  Monsieur, 
relative  to  the  power  of  the  Church,"  said  the  presi- 
dent; "I  remember  to  have  read  a  great  deal  upon  that 
very  subject.  Perhaps,  brother  Rateleux,  you  will 
have  the  goodness " 

Rateleux,  who,  according  to  the  Cambridge  term  of 
the  present  day,  had  been  "cramming"  himself  upon 
the  subject,  commenced  a  long,  learned,  and  tedious 
dissertation  upon  papal  supremacy;  and  spoke  of  the  do- 
nation of  Constantine  the  great;  and  quoted  divers 
ancient  Chronicles,  deeds,  speeches,  and  received  opi- 
nions— related  how  Clement  the  Fifth  (who, as  Pope  was, 
of  course,  infallible)  declared  in  the  council  of  Vienna, 
that  "all  the  right  of  kings  depended  upon  him  alone." 
How  Boniface  the  Eighth,  and  Innocent  the  Fourth  had 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.  181 

made  similar  assertions  relative  to  various  kingdoms, 
the  former  particularly  claiming  the  kingdom  of  France 
as  **a  fee  of  the  papal  majesty." 

When  this  erudite  display  of  Brother  Rateleux's  read- 
ing and  industry  terminated,  there  ran  a  general  buz 
of  approbation  and  triumph  round  the  board,  and  then 
the  president  declared  it  to  be  utterly  impossible  that 
any  thing  could  be  said  which  should  have  the  smallest 
weight  against  such  authority.  But  the  gentleman  in 
black  appeared  in  no  degree  dismayed;  and,  after  a 
cool  and  deliberate  pinch  of  snuff,  begged  leave  to 
make  a  few  observ^ations. 

"They  would  be  perfectly  useless,"  said  the  presi- 
dent, "a  mere  waste  of  time,  I  assure  you." 

"We  cannot  sit  here  all  day,"  observed  Franchelippe, 
somewhat  impatiently,  and  looking  at  his  watch. 

"Iwill  not  detain  you  long," said  theblackbond-holder, 
"for,  although  I  have  no  trifling  knowledge  of  many 
works  quoted  by  the  learned  gentleman,  I  will  not  re- 
fer to  them.  But  the  fact  is,  I  am  a  great  traveller, 
and  have  lately  been  much  in  England  and  Ireland, 
particularly  the  latter;  and  I  find  that  the  best  au- 
thorities, and  the  most  zealous  among  those  of  your  own 
church  there,  declare  that  the  pope  has  not " 

Here  the  president's  curiosity  got  the  better  of  his 
politeness,  and  he  interrupted  the  speaker  by  exclaim- 
ing, "well!  and  how  does  the  good  cause  go  on?  It  is  a 
sad  thing  to  think  of  the  heretical  state  of  those  king- 
doms. Abbies,  Cathedrals,  most  excellent  benefices  I 
Q 


182  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

am  told,  all,  all  in  the  possession  of  heretics!  Ah!  Our 
poor  brethren!  But,  tell  me,  I  beg,  are  things  likely 
soon  to  be  better? 

**As  for  that,  Monsieur,"  replied  the  dark  advocate 
of  his  own  cause,  "I  dare  not  speak  positively:  but  I 
rather  think  they  will.  In  the  mean  while,  however, 
what  is  more  to  the  business  in  hand,  which  I  always 
like  to  stick  to,  they  have  agreed  that  the  pope  does 
not  possess  the  power  of " 

**^We  cannot  listen  to  anything  of  that  kind,"  said  the 
president. 

"Les  betes!''  exclaimed  Nigaudin. 

"To  think  of  prescribing  limits  to  the  power  of  his 
holiness!"  cried  brother  Dodun,  turning  up  his  eyes, 
and  concluding  with  an  emphatic  "Oh!" 

"Let  me  tell  you,"  said  Rateleux,  whose  zeal  now 
burst  forth  in  consequence  of  the  approbation  which 
be  had  just  received — "Let  me  tell  you  it  can  be  of  no 
consequence  what  they  say.  What!  Shall  it  be  allow- 
ed that  a  few  isolated  members  of  the  universal  church, 
shall  presume  to  limit  the  powers  of  its  supreme  and 
infallible  head?  Bah!  What  can  their  opinions,  even 
supposing  them  to  be  sincere,  weigh  against  the  au- 
thorities which  I  shall,  with  the  permission  of  our  learn- 
ed president,  now  proceed  to  quote?" 

Here  the  hard-reading  member  produced  a  paper, 
on  which  an  abundance  of  closely  written  extracts, 
from  ancient  authors,  were  drawn  up  in  dark  array: 
but  he  was  prevented  from  proceeding  in  his  review 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         183 

thereof,  by  brother  Sapeur  the  Jesuit,  with  whom,  as 
we  stated  before,  Eagsby  had  formed  an  acquaintance. 

*'I  should  recommend  an  adjournment,"  said  this  son 
of  Loyola  briefly:  and  the  influence  of  his  fraternity  was 
so  great,  that  the  president  seemed  disposed  to  attend 
to  the  suggestion;  and  even  brother  Rateleux,  at  a  sig- 
nificant glance  fromihe  Jesuit,  deposited  the  important 
paper  calmly  amid  the  heap  that  lay  before  him.  The 
other  members  of  the  council  felt  that  there  was  a  mys- 
tery in  the  business,  and  as  they  could  not  comprehend 
it,  were  wise  enough  to  hold  their  peace,  thereby  evin- 
cing a  degree  of  prudence  worthy  of  imitation  in  higher 
quarters.  So,  after  a  short  silence,  the  council  was 
broken  up. 

"You  have  taken  a  strange  method  of  assisting  me," 
said  Bagsby,  when  he  next  found  himself  alone  with  the 
Jesuit. 

"I  am  sorry  to  have  disappointed  you,"  replied  bro- 
ther Sapeur,  "but  it  was  a  very  delicate  matter;  as 
you  would  say,  a  very  ugly  piece  of  business.  The 
point  in  question  was  one  which,  just  nowy  it  would  be 
exceedingly  imprudent  to  agitate.  We  must  act  ac- 
cording to  circumstances.  The  time  may  come — ahem 
— no  matter — that  is  not  exactly  the  business  between  «5." 

"Have  you  anything  to  propose?"  asked  Bagsby,  *'or 
do  you  mean  to  leave  me  in  the  lurch,  after  all  your 
promises?" 

"I  have  no  such  intention,"  said  Sapeur,  "I  propose 
to  have  an  interview  with  the  gentleman  in  black  upon 


184  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

the  Comte's  case,  as  I  feel  myself  deeply  interested 
therein.'^ 

"Then  the  sooner  the  better!"  exclaimed  the  indivi- 
dual in  question,  as  he  entered  the  room  in  which  this 
colloquy  was  held,  in  his  usual  unceremonious  way — 
*'The  sooner  the  better,  as  1  have  much  business  in 
hand,"  and  he  seated  himself  at  the  table. 

The  Jesuit  looked  for  a  moment  at  Bagsby,  as  though 
he  felt  uncomfortable  at  his  presence;  but  as  the  law- 
yer would  not  take  the  hint,  he  proceeded  to  address 
the  gentleman  in  black  in  the  Spanish  language.  His 
speech  was  slow,  monotonous,  and  mystical,  and  seemed 
to  make  no  small  impression  upon  the  hearer,  who, 
after  looking  round  for  a  moment  in  evident  embarrass- 
ment, said,  "Perhaps — hem — precisely  so — I  suppose 
from  your  dialect  you  are  a  Spaniard?" 

"I  am  generally  thought  to  be  so  when  I  speak  in 
that  tongue,"  replied  Sapeur. 

"Precisely  so,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black:  and  then 
muttered  to  himself  in  an  under  tone,  "A  double-tongued 
Jesuit,  and  an  old,  wily,  slippery  English  lawyer! 
Fearful  odds!  What  chance  have  /between  themt  I 
don't  feel  myself  at  all  comfortable!"  and  he  applied  to 
his  black  snuff-boxes  and  smeUing-bottle  with  unusual 
vigour,  while  the  Jesuit  and  Bagsby  conversed  aside  for 
the  space  of  five  minutes,  to  the  great  satisfaction  of 
the  latter,  who  was,  however,  too  prudent  to  allow  any 
evidence  thereof  to  appear  on  his  tutored  countenance. 


THE    GENTLEMAN    Ilf    BLACK.  185 

"1  can  draw  up  the  deed  immediately,"  said  Bagsby, 
speaking  out, — "nothing  can  be  fairer." 

"If  the  gentleman  does  not  think  fit  to  agree  to  the 
proposition  wozu,  I  will  not  engage  to  oflfer  it  again," 
observed  the  Jesuit,  in  a  cavalier  tone. 

"I  have  a  great  objection  to  delay,"  said  the  gentle- 
man in  black. 

''Rashness  is  frequently  more  prejudicial  to  one's  in- 
terests," rejoined  Sapeur,and  old  Bagsby  began  pulling 
his  under  lip,  as  was  his  wont  when  concocting  any  new 
device. 

"Half  the  sins  remitted!  Half  the  monies  paid!" 
murmured  the  gentleman  in  black. 

"Precisely  so,  to  use  your  own  words/'  replied  the 
Jesuit,  "subject  to  the  appropriation  of  the  sum  I  named 
for  the  prosecution  of  certain  schemes,  during  the  pro- 
gress of  which,  whatever  the  end  may  be,  you  must  be 
well  aware,  many  of  your  own  interests  will  be  served." 

"I  acknowledge  the  truth  of  your  remark,"  said  the 
dark  gentleman.  "I  confess  that  the  stirring  up  of 
men's  passions  is  gratifying  to  me." 

"I  am  confident  that  a  person  of  your  good  sense  must 
come  to  a  right  conclusion,"  observed  the  Jesuit. 

"But  to  postpone  my  claim  to  that  which  is,  as  it 
were,  within  my  grasp!''  added  the  other. 

"As  it  were,  indeed!"  said  Sapeur,  "You  will  soon 
find  that  I  and  my  worthy  friend  opposite  have  not  ex- 
hausted our  resources." 

The  gentleman  in  black  sighed  and  cast  a  glimpse  at 
q2 


186  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

Bagsby,  and  muttered,  "Fourteen  years!"  and  then 
some  sudden  and  not  unpleasant  idea  appeared  to  cross 
his  mind:  and  he  sat  musing  and  tapping  the  lid  of  his 
black  blackguard  snufF-box  for  the  space  of  a  minute, 
when  he  exclaimed,  "Well — then,  be  it  so!  The  first 
loss  is  the  best  when  one  gets  into  such  hands." 

"I  beg  leave  to  observe  that  that  is  a  very  ungentle- 
manly  observation,"  said  Bagsby. 

"Never  mind,"  quoth  the  Jesuit,  "We  must  make 
allowances.     Draw  up  the  deed." 

"Aye,  aye,"  muttered  Bagsby,  shuffling  up  to  the  ta- 
ble, on  which  were  writing  materials  in  abundance. 
"Let  me  see.  Half  the  monies  to  be  returned. — They 
are  entirely  under  my  control,  and  I  shall  give  a  cheque. 
Half  the  sins  remitted — half  the  time — that  is  fourteen 
years — and  at  the  end  of  fourteen  years  more,  the  ques- 
tion to  be  resumed  as  left  on  this  day.". 
"Precisely  so,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black. 
"We  may  as  well  take  a  walk  in  the  gardens  while 
our  friend  is  engaged," observed  the  Jesuit,  "and  breathe 
a  mouthful  of  fresh  air." 

"With  all  my  heart,"  replied  the  dark  gentleman, 
"It  will  perhaps  do  me  good,  for,  to  say  the  truth,  I 
don't  feel  quite  myself  this  morning." 

On  their  return  it  was  evident  that  the  spirits  of 
both  were  much  improved,  whether  from  the  effects  of 
the  air,  or  any  thing  they  had  seen  in  the  gardens  of 
the  Tuilleries,  or  that  they  had  been  complimenting 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         187 

and  mystifying  one  another,  must  remain  a  matter  of 
uncertainty. 

The  lawyer,  in  the  interim,  had  not  been  idle,  for 
the  deed  was  ready  for  signature,  and  he  presented  it 
to  the  gentleman  in  black,  and  requested  him  to  look 
over  it. 

"Bah!"  exclaimed  the  man  of  sables,  "what  a  rig- 
marole! Four  long  pages!  I  never  could  comprehend 
these  endless,  senseless  phrases — provided — neverthe- 
less— hem — ha!  I  see  the  heads  are  ri^ht.  "Fourteen 
years" — ah — "Half  the  amount  of" — "renewed  in  four- 
teen years" — hem — well — here  goes  then,  for  once,  to 
remit  my  just  and  lawful  claims.     Give  me  a  pen." 

The  document  was  regularly  signed,  and  witnessed 
by  Sapeur  the  Jesuit,  and  Bagsby,  and  the  cheque 
handed  over  to  the  gentleman  in  black,  who  put  it 
carefully  up  in  his  black  morocco  leather  pocket-book, 
and  then  throwing  himself  back  in  a  chair,  gave  vent 
to  one  of  his  startling  fits  of  immoderate  laughter. 

Hereupon  the  Jesuit  looked  somewhat  blank,  and 
uttered  an  expressive  "Humph!"  while  Bagsby's  an- 
cient and  meagre  countenance  underwent  not  the 
shadow  of  a  change. 

"Do  you  know,"  asked  the  gentleman  of  the  dark 
suit,  addressing  the  latter,  as  soon  as  he  had  recovered 
from  his  hilarious  paroxysm,  "what  was  my  principal 
reason  for  signing  the  paper  which  you  have  in  your 
pocket?" 

"Not  I,"  replied  the  lawyer,  "I  neither  know  nor 


188  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

care.  All  I  know  is  that  my  purpose  is  answered,  and 
that  is  sufficient  for  me." 

"Then  I'll  tell  you,"  said  the  gentleman  in  black,  *'I 
have  been  calculating  that  before  the  expiration  of 
fourteen  years,  you  will  have  ceased  to  be  in  a  condi- 
tion to  o]>pose  me." 

"Humph!"  grunted  Bagsby,  ^'Literae  scriptae  manent 
— ^you  may,  perhaps,  have  no  great  cause  for  congratu- 
lating yourself  when  the  time  comes." 

"What  do  you  mean?"  inquired  the  dark  gentleman, 
briskly. 

"Nothing  more,"  replied  the  lawyer  calmly,  "than 
that  I  have  taken  proper  care  of  my  client's  interest. 

All  demands  on  either  side,  either  for  money  or  sin, 
cease  for  fourteen  years,  and,  at  the  end  of  that  period, 
as  I  have  reserved  to  the  Comte  an  option  of  cancel- 
ling whichever  half  of  the  eight-and-twenty  years  he 
pleases,  I  suppose  he  will  find  no  great  difficulty  in  sin- 
ning for  a  second  on  the  first  year  of  your  renewed 
claim,  and  two  seconds  during  the  second,  and  so  on; 
and  moreover,  in  case  he  should  have  become  particu- 
larly religious  in  his  latter  days,  he  will  have  the  ad- 
vantage of  the  clause  introduced  by  yourself  into  the 
original  bond,  by  which  **all  sins  committed  before,  and 
all  sins  which  he  may  commit  in  future,  over  and  above 
the  stipulated  agreement,  are  to  be  taken  into  account." 
So,  altogether,  if  he  makes  proper  use  of  the  money 
yet  remaining  in  his  hands,  what  with  interest  and 
compound  interest,  I  think  you  might  almost  as  well  be 


THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK.  189 

in  Chancery.  He,  he!  Why  don't  you  laugh?"  and 
the  old  fellow  cackled  most  triumphantly,  till  a  fit 
of  coughing  put  an  end  to  his  merriment. 

The  gentleman  in  black,  in  the  meanwhile  sat  sadly 
crest-fallen  and  disconcerted,  while  the  Jesuit  appear- 
ed to  be  absorbed  in  some  deep  and  abstruse  calcula- 
tions, his  dark  brow  and  pale  cheek  supported  on  his 
left  hand,  as  he  murmured  at  intervals,  "Fourteen 
years — and  fourteen — twenty-eight — the  mission — the 
Bourbons — Ferd — inquisit — emancipation — a  glimpse  of 
former — hem — magna  est  Veritas  et — hem — twice  four- 
teen— a  general — why  not?" 

"Fool  that  I  was!"  exclaimed  the  gentleman  in  black, 
rising  and  stamping  violently  on  the  floor,  "to  think  of 
signing  any  paper  without  bringing  my  own  lawyer." 

"It  was  very  imprudent,  certainly,"  replied  Bagsby, 
"but  what  is  done  cannot  be  undone,  and  you  should  not 
bear  malice.  I  must  now  go  and  report  progress  to  my 
client,"  and  thus  saying,  he  arose  and  took  his  hat. 

"I  shall  not  lose  sight  of  you,"  exclaimed  he  of  the 
black  habiliments,  somewhat  angrily;  but  in  a  moment 
curbing  his  passion,  he  made  an  effort  at  apparent  mag- 
nanimity, and  assuming  his  usual  courteousness,  conti- 
nued, "I  will  do  myself  the  pleasure  of  calling  upon  you 
at  Lyons  Inn  ere  long.  I  admire  your  talents,  and  shall 
cultivate  a  more  intimate  acquaintance;  for  you  have 
convinced  me  that,  notwithstanding  a  considerable 
portion  of  self-conceit  to  which  I  plead  guilty,  I  have 
yet  much  to  learn.     People  say  that  I  have  a  very 


190  THE    GENTLEMAN    IN    BLACK. 

extensive  circle  of  friends  among  gentlemen  of  your 
profession,  but  I  assure  you  that  the  report  is  not  to  be 
relied  on.  Indeed,  considering  the  facilities  of  introduc- 
tion which  I  possess,  and  the  inducements  I  frequently 
have  in  my  power  to  hold  out,  I  am  often  surprised  that 
1  have  not  more  on  my  list." 

*'I  wish  you  a  good  morning,"  said  Bagsby,  taking  his 
leave. 

*'Au  revoir,"  replied  the  gentleman  in  black,  bowing 
politely. — And  so  they  parted. 

A  grand  entertainment  was  given  at  the  Comte 
D'Ormalle's  hotel,  whereat  Bagsby  "sported"  a  new 
wig,  and  was  introduced  as  the  Comte's  most  particular 
friend  to  many  noble  personages,  and  "gens  comme  il 
faut;"  but  a  whisper  of  the  story  of  "a  gentleman  in 
black"  had  gone  abroad,  and  he  found  himself  alone  in 
a  crowd,  though  the  "admired  of  all  admirers."  The 
ladies,  in  particular,  reversing  the  usual  custom  of 
"place*  aux  dames,"  made  way  for  him  wherever  he 
moved.  Eis  was  a  painful  pre-eminence,  and  there- 
fore he  lost  no  time  in  returning  to  the  quietude  of 
Lyons  Inn,  where  he  and  old  Jerry  were  alive  some 
years  ago,  and  going  on  in  the  old  six-and-eightpenny 
style. 

Considering  his  nation  and  his  habits,  it  will  not  ap- 
pear surprising  that  the  Comte  D'Ormalle  did  not  con- 
cern himself  about  what  might  happen  in  about  eight 
and  twenty  years.  The  ecclesiastical  council  on  his 
case  was  broken  up;  and  the  only  individual  of  that 


THE  GENTLEMAN  IN  BLACK.         191 

body  who  appears  to  have  taken  any  further  interest 
in  the  matter  is  brother  Rateleux,  who.  was  long  em- 
ployed in  a  deep  investigation  and  learned  dissertation 
upon  the  probability  and  possibility  of  the  gentleman  in 
black  urging  his  claims,  should  the  Comte  have  arrived 
in  purgatory  before  the  expiration  of  the  period  during 
which  he  had  agreed  to  allow  them  to  remain  dormant. 
We  are  happy  to  say  that  the  decision  to  which  he 
came  was,  that,  in  such  a  case,  which  according  to  the 
usual  tenor  of  human  existence,  may  probably  occur, 
the  gentleman  in  black  will  be  nonsuited.  But  if  the 
learned  brother  has  made  a  false  conclusion,  or  the 
Comte  should  survive  the  stipulated  period,  his  ultimate 
fate  must  depend  entirely  upon  the  question  of  the 
pope's  supremacy,  which  may,  perhaps,  then  be  ar- 
gued at  full  length.  But,  it  is  an  inquiry  of  too  deep 
importance,  and  involved  too  much  in  the  labyrinths 
of  historical  investigation,  for  us  to  venture  an  opinion 
thereupon. 

In  the  meanwhile  they  are  going  on  in  Paris  as  if 
they  cared  nothing  about  the  matter. 


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land. 2  vols.  12mo. 

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of  the  Mediterranean.  2  vols.  12mo. 

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C.  Wines.  2  vols.  12mo. 

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Muskau)  in  England,  &c.  8vo. 

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South  Sea  Islands,  China,  India,  &c.  3  vols. 

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View  of  the  Valley  of  the  Mississippi,  or 
the  Emigrant's  and  Traveller's  Guide.  12mo. 

Vigne's,  G.  T.,  Six  Months  in  America. 
18rao. 


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Walsh's,  Dr.,  Travels  in  Constantinople, 
&c.  12mo. 

Walsh's,  Dr.,  Notices  of  Brazil,  in  1828 
and  1829.  2  vols.  12mo. 

Woodruff's,  Samuel,  Toijt  to  Malta, 
Greece,  Asia  Minpr,  &.c.  8vo. 


West  Coast  of  Africa,  The.  ]2rao. 
Wheaton's,  H.  S.,  Journal  of  a  Residence 
in  London,  France,  and  Scotland.  12mo. 

Year,  A,  in  Spain.  2  vols.  12nio. 


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mers. 2  vols.  8vo. 

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Life  of  Alexander  the  Great,  by  Williams. 
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Life  of  George  IV.,  by  Croly.  18mo. 

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Memoirs  of  Cardinal  de  Retz.  3  vols. 

Memoirs  of  Sullv.  5  vols.  8vo. 

Memoirs  of  W.  Jeitt,  by  Tomlinson.  2  vols. 

Memoirs  of  Thomas    Eddy,   by  Samuel 
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Francis  Griffin.  2  vols.  8vo. 
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ARTS    AND    SCIENCES. 


Arnot's  Elements  of  Physics.   2  vols.  8vo. 

Allan's,  T.,  Science  of  Mechanics,  as  ap- 
plied to  the  present  improvements  in  the 
useful  Arts.  8vo. 

Bakewell's  Geology,  by  Silliman,  2d- edi- 
tion. 8vo. 

Bourchalet's  Treatise  on  Mechanics,  by 
Courtenay.  8vo. 

Barton's  Flora  of  North  America,  coloured 
plates.  3  vols.  4to. 

Brunton's  Treatise  on  Mechanics,  by  Ren- 
wick.  12mo. 

Bigelow's  Plants  of  Boston.  8vo. 

Bourdon's  Algebra,  by  Professor  Farar. 
8vo. 

Bigelow's,  Dr.,  Elements  of  Technology. 
8vo. 

Benjamin's,  A.,  Practice  of  Architecture. 
4to. 

Benjamin's,  A.,  Practical  Builder.  4to. 

Benjamin's,  A.,  Carpenter's  Guide.  4to. 

Brewster's,  Sir  D.,  Treatise  on  Optics, 
with  an  Appendix,  by  A.  D.  Bache.  ]2mo. 

Bakewell's,  F.  C,  Philosophical  Conversa- 
tions. 12mo. 

Borden's  Elements  of  Algebra.  Bvo. 

Conversations  on  Chemistry.  12mo. 

Carpenter's  Guide,  (Nicholson's.)  4to. 

Cuvier's,  Baron,  Discourses  on  the  Revo- 
lution of  the  Globe.   ]2mo. 

Cambridge's  Mathematics,  by  Professor 
Farar.   2  vols.  8vo. 

Courtenay's,  E.  H.,Treatise  on  Mechanics. 
8vo. 

Cuvier's  Animal  Kingdom,  translated  by 
R.  M.  McMurtrie,  in  4  vols.  8vo.  plates. 

Conversations  on  Botany,  with  notes,  &c. 
by  Blake.  12mo. 

De  la  Beeche's  Geological  Manual.  8vo. 
c3 


Davies',  C,  Descriptive  Geometry.  Bvo. 

Davies',  C,  Shades  and  Shadows.  8vo. 

Davies',  C,  Surveying.  8vo. 

Description  of  the  Rail  Road,  from  Liver- 
pool to  Manchester,  translated  by  J.  C. 
Stocker.  18mo. 

Enfield's  Philosophy.  4to. 

Eaton's,  A.,  Manual  of  Botany.  12mo. 

Eaton's  Geology. 

Eaton's  Geological  Text  Book.  8vo. 

Evans',  Oliver,  Millwright  and  Miller's 
Guide.  Bvo. 

Electricity  and  Magnetism,  by  Professor 
Farar.  8vo. 

Euler's  Algebra,  by  Professor  Farar.   Bvo. 

Essays  onAmerican  Silk,  with  directions 
for  raising  Silk  Worms.   ]2mo. 

Farar's,  Professor,  Astronomy.  Bvo. 
Fischers  Elements  of  Natural  Philosophy, 
by  Professor  Farar.  Bvo. 

Gregory's  Dictionary  of  the  Arts  and  Sci- 
ences. 3  vols.  4to. 

Gibson's  Surveying,  by  Ryan.  Bvo. 

Grund's.  F.,  Treatise  on  Geometry.  12mo. 

GREGORY'S,  O.,  MATHEMATICS  FOR 
PRACTICAL  MEN.  Bvo.  2d  EDITION, 
WITH  240  CUTS  AND  PLATES. 

Comstock's  Outlines  of  Geology.  12mo. 

Comstock's  Mineralogy.  12mo. 

Guy's  Elements  of  Astronomy,  and  hn 
Abridgment  of  Keith  on  the  Globe.  12mo. 

Green's,  Jacob,  Text  Book  of  Chemical 
Science.  8vo. 

Hitchcock's,  Professor,  Reports  on  Geolo 
gy.  Mineralogy,  Botany,  &c.,  of  Massachu- 
setts. 1  vol.  Bvo.  and  atlas. 

Herschel's,  Sir  J,  F-  W.,  Treatise  on  As- 
trojuomy.  12mo. 


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Herschel's,  Sir  J.  F.  W.,  Preliminary  Dis- 
course on  the  Study  of  Natural  Philosophy. 
12mo. 

Hazzler's  Logarithmic  and  Trigonometric 
Tables.  12rao. 

Kater  and  Lardner's  Treatise  on  Mecha- 
nics. 12mo. 

Lardner,  Dr.  on  the  Steam  Engine.  12mo 

Lucas'  Complete  Drawing  Book,  long  fo 
lio. 

Lacrolx's  Algebra,  by  Professor  Farar 
8vo. 

Lacrolx's  and  Euler's  Algebra,  by  Profes 
8or  Farar.  8vo. 

Laplace's  Mechanique  Celeste,  by  Dr 
Bowditch.  4to. 

Legeudre's  Geometry,  by  Farar.  8vo. 

Lamarck's  Genera  of  Shells,  translated 
by  Dubois.  12ino. 

Lindley's,  John,  Introduction  to  the  Sys- 
tem of  Botany.  8vo. 

Lincoln's.  Mrs.,  Familiar  Lectures  on  Bo- 
tanv.  12mo. 

Lincoln's,  Mrs.,  Dictionary  of  Chemistry, 
12mo. 

Lessons  on  Shells.  IBmo. 

Mechanics,  by  Farar.  8vo. 

Morse's,  E.  Manual  of  Mineralogy  and 
Geology.  12mo. 

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Nuttal's  Botany,  12mo. 
Nicholson's  Operative  Mechanic.    2  vols. 
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Optics,  Treatise  on,  by  Professor  Farar. 
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Renwick,  Professor,  Treatise  on  Mecha- 
nics. 8vo. 

Renvi^ick,  Professor,  Treatise  on  Steam. 
Svo. 

Robinson's  Catalogue  of  Minerals.  Svo. 

Strickland's,  W.,  Report  on  Rail  Roads 
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Spurzheim's,  G.,  Outline  of  Phrenology 
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Shephard's,  C.  M.,  Treatise  on  Mineralo- 
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Shaw's,  Edward,  Civil  Architecture,  or  a 
complete  Theoretical  and  Practical  System 
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Trigonometry,  Treatise  on,  by  Farar. 
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Topography,  Treatise  on,  by  Farar.  Svo. 

Treatise  on  the  Manufacture  of  Porcelain 
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Tingrey's  Painter  and  Colourman's  Guide. 
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Wood's,  N.,  Treatise  on  Rail  Roads.  Svo. 

Williams'  Astronomy.  ■12mo. 

Whewell's  Astronomy  and  General  i*hy- 
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Walsh's,  I.  R.,  Familiar  Lessons  in  Mine- 
ralogy and  Geology.  2  vols.  12mo. 

Young's,  J.  R.,  Elements  of  Mechanics. 
Svo. 
Young's,  J.R.,  Trigonometry.  Svo. 
Young's,  J.  R.,  Differential  Calculus.  Svo. 
Young's  J.  R.,  Algebra.  Svo. 
Young's,  J.  R.,  Integral  Calculus. 
Young's,  J.  R.,  Analytical  Geometry. 
Young's,  J.  R.,  Elements  of  Geometry, 


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